Vocabulary

• pace: Rate of speed at which something moves or happens
• vehicle: Machine (such as a car) used to carry things
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• gooey: Soft and sticky
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• trip: To release an electrical switch
• shut: To stop being open for business
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• pit: To use your strength, skill or wit to beat another
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• metal: Usually hard shiny material mined from rock
• siren: Device that produces loud warning sounds; alarm
• pedal: Lever worked by the foot, e.g. the brakes of a car
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• paddle: Long stick with a flat end used to move a boat
• trickle: To flow in a thin slow stream
• truck: Homegrown vegetables and fruit for sale
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• zoom: Camera lens used to magnify images
• fire: Heat and the flame produced when burning
• watch: To keep in check, manage, or control something
• fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
• town: Small city
• wee: Scottish and Northern English small; short
• swish: To move with a soft brushing or sweeping sound
• screech: To make a loud high cry of pain, anger, or fear
• safe: Highly likely
• stop: To block or close something
• food: What people and animals eat to live
• melon: Hard round fruit with sweet juicy flesh and seeds
• open: To make accessible or able to be used, e.g. road
• firefighter: Person whose job is stopping and putting out fires
• splatter: To throw drops of e.g. blood, on surface violently
• ye: Old word for 'you' in the plural
• oo: The sound of surprise