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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Introduces two items - is the correct word when expressing the relationships of three or more items considered one pair at a time - all pronouns must be in the objective case - between him and her - between you and me
navel
lay
between
medium
2. Legal term for slaying or killing
collide - collision
homicide
biennial
buses
3. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
faze
No.
demolish or destroyed
comprise
4. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
flounder
flay
flare
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
5. Not afterwards
navel
flare
flier
afterward
6. Do not use this pronoun in reference to nations or ships except in quoted matter
heaven
native
ravish
her
7. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
average
flaunt
accommodate
principal
8. Use with great care - Avoid any suggestion that the writer is making an allegation - Specify the source of an allegation (arrest record etc.) - Use alleged bribe or similar phrase when necessary to make it clear that an unproved action is not being
magazine names
compliment
National Organization for Women
allege
9. Correct punctuation and spelling for family relative by marriage
in-law
widow
either...or - neither...nor
on
10. Means to guarantee
ensure
rebut
norm
primiere
11. 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.
medium
flounder
last
aide
12. Kisses
busses
stationary
hanged
immigrate
13. 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
norm
figuratively
daylight saving time
half staff
14. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
alumna
National Organization for Women
courtesy titles
Cabinet
15. When speaking of an individual
person
flier
one another
buses
16. The of is unnecessary
off of
rack
his
complement
17. Means in addition to
founder
besides
president
figuratively
18. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
ensure
half mast
liaison
principle
19. Kiss
buss
flyer
rack
imply
20. To argue to the contrary
alumnus
rebut
aide
composition titles
21. Means to influence
further
ZIP code
each other
affect
22. Twice a year (same as biannual)
accept
manslaughter
phase
semiannual
23. Implies a standard of average performance for a given group
besides
liaison
norm
arrest
24. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
wrack
login - logon - logoff
native
her
25. 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
premier
murder
composition titles
marshal
26. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
stationary
arrest
century
last
27. Every two years
biennial
median
person
lay
28. Woman to be married
aide
fiancee
since
alter
29. NOW is acceptable on second reference- HQ is in Washington
criterion
phase
adviser
National Organization for Women
30. 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.
off of
founder
comprise
badly
31. Adjective stopped - firm and steadfast
complement
staunch
was drowned
ravage
32. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
drowned
fiancee
half mast
because
33. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
muslims
average
fiance
marshall
34. Completeness of process of supplementing something
criteria
average
titles
complement
35. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
whom
Internet
troupe
amid
36. Used in proper names and as someone in a parade
website
marshall
principal
less
37. 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
premier
whom
one another
38. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
last
impostor
marshal
its
39. Copy pertaining to the navy
naval
Cabinet
over
Orient - Oriental
40. Use all-caps ZIP for zoning improvement plan - but always lowercase the word code - run the 5 digits together without a comma and do not put a comma between state name and ZIP
ZIP code
ravish
over
teenage
41. A location on the World Wide Web that maintains one or more pages at a specific address. Also webcam - webcast - and webmaster. But as a short form and in terms with separate words - the Web - Web page and Web feed.
which
stanch
stationary
website
42. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
pore
No.
hanged
marshal
43. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
rock 'n' roll
accommodate
toward
arrest
44. One who comes into a country ___s to it
founder
between
immigrate
who's
45. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
native
besides
like
italics
46. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
ravage
stanch
criterion
whose
47. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
her
who
federal
person
48. Preferred with numerals (instead of over)
more than
affect
criteria
amid
49. Do not use the term teenaged
teenage
murder
flaunt
biennial
50. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
comprise
each other
troop
flaunt