Vehicles and Transportation
N1 What vehicle takes you to the hospital in an emergency?
N2 The car used to carry a dead body for burial:
N2b You call the driver of a car you can hire to take you somewhere a(n) ________.
N3 The vehicle that takes arrested people to the police station or to jail:
N4 A police vehicle with a red, blue, or yellow flashing light on top:
N4b Do you have a name for the flashing light?
N5 Nicknames for an automobile, especially an old or broken-down car:
N6 An old car that has been fixed up to make it go fast or make a lot of noise:
N6b An open-sided shelter that you can drive your car into to protect it from the weather:
N7 If you had made a trip by car to a city, you might say, “We ________ to X last week.”
N7b To pay for parking on a street: “I have to go ______ the meter.”
N7c What do you call a large area or structure where you can park your car for a few hours?
N8 If somebody gave you lessons in driving a car, you might say, “She ________ me how to drive.”
N9 The colored light that controls the cars at busy road crossings:
N10c What do you call the storage place in the dashboard in front of the passenger seat of a car?
N10e What do you call the device in a vehicle that tells you how to get to your destination?
N11a A very large truck used to haul freight, new cars, and other big loads:
N12a Names for somebody who drives carelessly or not well:
N12b What do you call a traffic slowdown caused by motorists viewing a road accident?
N12c A 360-degree turn made by a skidding or uncontrolled vehicle:
N13 If someone has been drinking and then drives a car, she may be arrested for:
N14 The place where you go to put gasoline into a car:
N15a Gas stations usually have several kinds of gasoline: a cheaper kind that’s called ________.
N16a Names for a highway with two lanes on each side and a separation down the middle:
N16d On an interstate highway, what are the places provided for stopping and resting called?
N17 What do you call the separating area in the middle of a four-lane road?
N17c A broad bump, perhaps four feet long, that is put across a road to slow traffic:
N17d The smaller, more abrupt bump put across a city street to slow traffic:
N20d What does a sign say to warn you that a street comes to an end?
N21 What do you call a road that is surfaced with smooth black pavement?
N23 Other kinds of paved roads around here:
N24 A ditch along the side of a road:
N25 The unpaved part of a road along the edge:
N27a Names around here for different kinds of unpaved roads:
N27b When an unpaved road get very rough, you call it (a) ________.
N28 A road that connects a big highway with stores and business places set back from it:
N29 What names are used around here for a less important road running back from a main road?
N30 What do you call a sudden short dip in a road?
N31 A place in a road where animals regularly go across:
N32 A place where roads cross at right angles:
N34 An electric car that runs on tracks in a city:
N34b The system of trains that runs underground in large cities:
N35 A fast train that goes from one big city to another without stopping at all the stations:
N38d What motorized vehicles are used to travel over snow?
N38f What do you call a small, motorized, two-wheeled vehicle that is not a motorcycle?
N38g The machine that individuals use to clear snow from their sidewalks and driveways:
N42 Wheeled carriers for babies or small children—the kind they can lie down in:
N43 Wheeled carriers for small children—the kind they have to sit up in:
N44 In a town, the strip of grass and trees between the sidewalk and the curb:
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