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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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Subject
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journalism-and-media
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. One who leaves a country ___s from it
rack
emigrate
accommodate
badly
2. Use the abbreviation for number in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank
each other
NAACP
No.
off of
3. Capitalize their proper names - do not use quotes
troupe
among
lie
reference works
4. In its sense used in arithmetic and statistics - is an average and is determined by adding the series of numbers and dividing the sum by the number of cases
mean
since
literally
all right
5. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
alter
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
marshal
teenage
6. To change
alter
manslaughter
City Council
troop
7. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
was drowned
as
Fourth of July
plurality
8. Introduces more than two items - all pronouns must be in the objective case - among us
median
afterward
among
mean
9. A table-like platform used in a religious service
altar
magazine names
badly
last
10. Proper spelling and capitalization for a Christian afterlife
each
misdemeanor
hopefully
heaven
11. To embarrass or disturb
faze
altar
effect
fiance
12. To avoid any suggestion that someone is being judged before a trial - do not use a phrase such as arrested for killing. Instead - use arrested on a charge of killing. If a charge hasn't been filed - arrested on suspicion of - or a similar phrase - sh
speeds
wrack
its
arrest
13. To swing the arms widely
literally
subject
flair
fewer
14. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
Orient - Oriental
that
because
nicknames
15. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
century
resident
fewer
composition titles
16. Individual items reduced in number
Fourth of July
flout
fewer
compose
17. Plural means several groups of people - often military or animals
median
alumni
troops
that
18. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
No.
under way
alumnus
less
19. A person who has acquired the full civil rights of a nation either by birth or naturalization. Cities and states in the U.S. do not confer citizenship.
altar
citizen
who's
pore
20. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
City Council
over
its
comprise
21. Books - computer games - movies - operas - plays - poems - albums and songs - radio and tv programs - lectures - speeches and works of art should all: - capitalize principal words - capitalize an article - quotes around these works that are not: reli
that
composition titles
collide - collision
national
22. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
adviser
one another
City Council
italics
23. A contraction for it is or it has
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183
24. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
Cabinet
each
principle
citizen
25. Correct punctuation and spelling for family relative by marriage
flair
either...or - neither...nor
in-law
half mast
26. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
was drowned
alter
nicknames
century
27. Means to influence
affect
subject
except
in spite of
28. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
subject
fiancee
infer
that
29. A person who gives advice - never advisor
adviser
fewer
complement
Cabinet
30. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
as
flaunt
drowned
flare
31. A person who serves as an assistant
who
media
aide
altar
32. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
literally
forward
compose
his
33. When referring to a man who has attended a school
defendant
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
alumnus
fiance
34. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
off of
who
ravish
flounder
35. Means to gaze intently or steadily
felony
altar
compliment
pore
36. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
nicknames
between
felony
half staff
37. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
citizen
altar
principal
forward
38. Man to be married
flyer
fiance
literally
except
39. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
it's
magazine names
median
biennial
40. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
widow
Cabinet
mean
phase
41. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
flier
in-law
between
widower
42. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
flout
imply
amid
43. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
crisis
Cabinet
effect
comprise
44. Not savings - no hyphen - when linking term with the name of a time zone - use only the word daylight (capitalize only when used with a time zone) - lowercase in all uses
teenage
beside
daylight saving time
toward
45. Should not be used as an adverb. It does not lose its status as an adjective - however - in a sentence such as "I feel bad." Such a statement is the idiomatic equivalent of I am in bad health.
compliment
half staff
off of
bad
46. Avoid the use of last as a synonym for latest if it might imply finality - this word is unnecessary to imply the most recent if there is a month or day used.
last
alumnae
flout
ensure
47. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
insure
teenage
medium
whom
48. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
on
plurality
flare
homicide
49. Kisses
italics
was drowned
busses
City Hall
50. In general - confine capitalization to formal titles used directly before an individual's name
rack
titles
felony
fiancee