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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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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. To bog down become disabled or sink
over
insure
No.
founder
2. Extension of time or degree
further
widow
demolish or destroyed
that
3. To show contempt for
flout
effect
aide
infer
4. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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5. Ashore and not on naval stations flags are flown at
National Organization for Women
badly
half staff
complement
6. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
lie
was drowned
National Organization for Women
manslaughter
7. When speaking of an individual
badly
person
wrack
biannual
8. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
amid
comprise
majority
alumnus
9. References to insurance
median
insure
nicknames
aid
10. 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.
comprise
her
last
whom
11. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
allege
criterion
email
City Hall
12. Takes plural verb - use it to mean one or the other - not both - right: she said to use either door - wrong: there were lions on either side of the door
National Organization for Women
either
citizen
premier
13. When referring to a man who has attended a school
alumnus
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
login - logon - logoff
national
14. An aspect or stage
phase
Cabinet
No.
national
15. A first performance
primiere
Legislature
last
Fourth of July
16. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
flaunt
lay
italics
effect
17. Malicious - premeditated homicide - some states define certain homicides as this if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery - rape - etc. - do not say a victim was ____ed unless it was proven in court - instead say the victim was killed or
widow
majority
half mast
murder
18. Singular form of problem or turning point
busses
immigrate
subject
crisis
19. Means in addition to
amid
besides
allege
biannual
20. Means to flow in a continuous stream
pour
manslaughter
titles
City Hall
21. Also Independence Day. The federal legal holiday is observed on Friday if July 4 falls on a Saturday - on Monday if it falls on a Sunday.
staunch
his
Fourth of July
rack
22. Means more than half of an amount
crisis
majority
ravish
criteria
23. Means in an exact sense
hopefully
literally
alter
murder
24. A picture - a criminal or oneself
No.
homicide
hang - hangs
allege
25. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
media
flyer
over
like
26. Applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen - or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.
Black muslim
national
flier
felony
27. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
teenage
flair
navel
wrack
28. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
flout
imply
refute
29. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
City Council
rebut
flare
buses
30. The nouns that follow these words do not constitute a compound subject; they are alternate subjects and require a verb that agrees with the nearer subject - Neither they nor he is going - Neither he nor they are going.
buses
Nobel Prize
fewer
either...or - neither...nor
31. To change
alter
principle
criteria
off of
32. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
accept
less
emigrate
misdemeanor
33. Is the possessive of who
firefighter - police officer
City Hall
wrack
whose
34. 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.
average
arrest
bad
hang - hangs
35. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
half mast
italics
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
courtesy titles
36. Means in a hopeful manner. Do not use to mean it is hoped - let us hope or we hope - right: It is hoped we will complete our work in June. wrong: Hopefully - we will complete our work in June.
primiere
faze
bus
hopefully
37. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
norm
forward
flier
troupe
38. A person who gives advice - never advisor
alumni
adviser
native
bus
39. One who comes into a country ___s to it
troop
emigrate
immigrate
rebut
40. Writing paper
stationery
norm
alumnus
phase
41. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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42. For hanging not referring to a person's death
hung
either...or - neither...nor
flay
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
43. Always preferred over persons - persons only used when it's in a direct quote - also a collective noun when referring to a single race or nation so peoples should only be used when speaking of multiple groups
wrack
besides
pore
people
44. Should not be used as an adverb - use only as adjective. "I feel badly" - could be interpreted as meaning that your sense of touch was bad.
infer
badly
stationary
speeds
45. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
widower
pour
courtesy titles
Internet
46. To embarrass or disturb
collide - collision
media
drowned
faze
47. 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.
citizen
forward
faze
Nobel Prize
48. Indicates a state of reclining. It does not take a direct object. Its past tense is lay. Its past participle is lain and present participle is lying - when __ means to make an untrue statement - the verb forms are lie - lied - lying.
lie
all right
under way
naval
49. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
Fourth of July
whom
norm
among
50. In an analogous sense but not in an exact sense
NAACP
marshall
figuratively
each