basic

altercation, accident, mishap, fracas, scuffle, shootings, assault, brawl, collision, allegation, disturbance, confrontation, tragedy, crash, stabbing, robbery, melee, armed robbery, arrest, skirmish, massacre, explosion, attack, police, outburst, indiscretion, vandalism, accusation, assailant, situation, fatality, abduction, complaint, contretemps, horseplay, holdup, gunfight, dustup, raid, atrocity, infraction, burglary, derailment, transgression, ordeal, fiasco, sighting, investigation, fistfight, outage, dfc, prank, blaze, carjacking, victim, debacle, sexual assault, injuries, escapade, case, eyewitness, gaffe, outbreak, commotion, perpetrator, provocation, spillage, scene, dispute, wreck, blast, incursion, quarrel, arson, thefts, bomb blast, smashup, gunshot, slaying, affray, misbehavior, remark, complainant, misunderstanding, ejection, flareup, slur, imbroglio, clashes, policer, brouhaha, bystander, harassment, ambush, deaths, disorderly conduct, tiff, mistreatment, mixup, beaning, firefight, suspect, incidents, episode, event, circumstance, happening, instance, anecdote, exception, happenings, misadventure, story, item, peculiarity, encounter, instances, omission, backscattered, unpolarized, diffracted, reflected, monochromatic, emitted, transmitted, unmodulated, collimated, paraxial, electromagnetic, radiated, ultrasonic, acoustic, circularly, ic, photon, polarized

cause celebre, contagion, infection, sideshow, transmission

., absorptance, absorption, absorption coefficient, absorption factor, absorptivity, achromatic, act out, albedo, anecdote, background, birth trauma, black, casey jones, cause celebre, clowning, coefficient of absorption, comedy, contagion, cost accountant, drollery, firestorm, funniness, funny story, good story, illuminance, illumination, image orthicon, infection, insolation, john luther jones, jones, mass murderer, night terror, orthicon, photoelectron, placid, quiet, recounting, reflected, reflective power, sabin, scene, sideshow, transmission, unexceptional, unreflected, unstrung, verifiable, white, with kid gloves, wordy

disruption, hurly burly, natural event, occurrence, stir, to-do, turmoil

by, bye, incidental, parenthetic, parenthetical, peripheral, secondary, side