Traffic Accident Vocabulary

noun A death resulting from an accident, disaster, or other unfortunate event.

• The investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing, but unfortunately there was a fatality.
• I heard there was a fatality in the car crash on the highway.
• The fatality rate on that road is no joke, you gotta be careful driving there.
• Lack of communication can be a fatality for any relationship.

noun a large amount of something that has been placed in a heap or stack

verb to accumulate or increase in quantity or number

adjective none

adverb none

pronoun none

preposition none

conjunction none

interjection none

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• The papers continued to pile up on my desk as the deadline approached.
• I can't believe how quickly my laundry piles up when I don't do it regularly.
• I told my brother not to pile up the dishes in the sink like that.
• Emotions can pile up inside of us if we don't address them.