Curious Incident Vocabulary

Noise containing many frequencies with equal intensities

• White noise

• Apocryphal

• Embolism

• Rubbish

A mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury that causes memory loss, personality changes, and impaired reasoning

• Dementia

• Slander

• Chaotic

• Epileptic

Making false and damaging statements about someone

• Slander

• Apocryphal

• Digression

• White noise

A fictitious story widely believed to be true

• Apocryphal

• Digression

• Giddy

• Deduce

Shaped into alternating ridges and grooves

• Corrugated

• Red herring

• Amnesia

• Intuition

A place of safety

• Sanctuary

• Cremate

• Claustrophobia

• Propagating

A temporary departure from the main subject

• Digression

• Dementia

• Deduce

• Intuition

Obstruction of an artery, typically by a clot of blood or an air bubble

• Embolism

• Slander

• Giddy

• Propagating

A clue that is intended to mislead

• Red herring

• White noise

• Chaotic

• Propagating

Waste material

• Rubbish

• Cremate

• Slander

• Fatigue