Sentence:  Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the <WSD>pike</WSD> ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic