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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. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
majority
crisis
hanged
wrack
2. Every two years
hopefully
biennial
liaison
in spite of
3. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
aide
principle
media
murder
4. 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
alumnus
badly
composition titles
sneaked
5. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
on
troop
aide
City Hall
6. 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.
bad
reference works
City Council
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
7. Plural form of a standard
criteria
defendant
stanch
over
8. Physical distance
beside
besides
troupe
farther
9. Means to gaze intently or steadily
pore
ensure
City Hall
nicknames
10. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
resident
nicknames
compliment
because
11. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
subject
criteria
No.
complement
12. Correct spelling for one who deceives by using a false identity
fiancee
impostor
sneaked
stationery
13. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
marshall
Orient - Oriental
accept
federal
14. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
website
muslims
crises
stationery
15. 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.
Fourth of July
ZIP code
like
sneaked
16. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
homicide
aid
flier
City Hall
17. For hanging not referring to a person's death
biannual
off of
hung
fewer
18. Is acceptable on first reference to avoid a cumbersome lead - but provide the full name in the body of the story - HQ is in Baltimore
majority
each
NAACP
heaven
19. A contraction for it is or it has
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20. One who leaves a country ___s from it
emigrate
composition titles
demolish or destroyed
magazine names
21. Spelling for the noun that carries a badge and gun and verb that describes one who keeps things in order
marshal
majority
allege
beside
22. Correct spelling of an individual or group being sued or charged with a crime
defendant
plurality
website
beside
23. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
flaunt
which
composition titles
ravage
24. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
email
plurality
federal
daylight saving time
25. Means at the side of
beside
hang - hangs
City Council
who's
26. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
compose
NAACP
badly
aide
27. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
Orient - Oriental
City Council
pore
drowned
28. To stand still
stationary
flier
troupe
except
29. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
alter
teenage
flair
sneaked
30. Correct punctuation and spelling for family relative by marriage
alumna
emigrate
majority
in-law
31. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
toward
median
alumnus
figuratively
32. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
flout
homicide
flaunt
stanch
33. 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
reference works
pour
citizen
people
34. Never forwards to explain moving toward a position ahead
forward
alumni
average
its
35. Singular form of a standard
faze
criterion
its
citizen
36. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
majority
impostor
all right
because
37. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
complement
Legislature
native
half staff
38. Verb to stop the flow of something
off of
figuratively
stanch
hung
39. Means in an exact sense
except
literally
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
Internet
40. Completeness of process of supplementing something
immigrate
murder
alter
complement
41. Writes or speakers ____s in the words they use
magazine names
imply
Fourth of July
native
42. Homicide without malice or premeditation
Internet
manslaughter
assure
faze
43. All tenses of the word that means a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding
criterion
manslaughter
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
under way
44. The pronoun used for references to human beings and to animals with a name
criterion
who
national
lie
45. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
refute
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
magazine names
faze
46. Used in proper names and as someone in a parade
rock 'n' roll
marshall
defendant
alumna
47. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school
allege
alumni
which
manslaughter
48. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
alumnae
her
muslims
like
49. To bog down become disabled or sink
complement
founder
lay
whose
50. Plural means several groups of people - often military or animals
troops
figuratively
infer
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