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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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1. The pronoun used for references to human beings and to animals with a name
lie
complement
one another
who
2. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
less
pour
City Hall
further
3. 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
ravage
composition titles
allege
hanged
4. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
stationery
insure
Legislature
lie
5. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
lay
Nobel Prize
infer
bad
6. Means to guarantee
reference works
ensure
biennial
flare
7. All tenses of the word that means a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
faze
half staff
alumni
8. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
demolish or destroyed
wrack
Black muslim
flare
9. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
because
lie
altar
immigrate
10. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
alumnus
sneaked
his
troop
11. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
his
Legislature
badly
refute
12. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
further
ZIP code
medium
since
13. Means to make sure or give confidence
among
assure
last
misdemeanor
14. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
Black muslim
drowned
resident
italics
15. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
National Organization for Women
mean
website
courtesy titles
16. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations
Orient - Oriental
fiancee
accommodate
as
17. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
italics
figuratively
marshal
faze
18. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
accommodate
ensure
titles
speeds
19. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
whom
hanged
badly
native
20. A first performance
primiere
in spite of
beside
altar
21. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
Cabinet
each
principal
faze
22. A member of a predominantly black Islamic sect in the United States. However the term is considered DEROGATORY by members of the sect - who call themselves muslims
murder
teenage
as
Black muslim
23. Means in addition to
literally
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
rock 'n' roll
besides
24. Means in an exact sense
hung
literally
accommodate
ravage
25. A contraction for it is or it has
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26. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
average
widow
collide - collision
effect
27. To be used instead of the sexist terms
speeds
on
median
firefighter - police officer
28. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
imply
in spite of
hung
alumna
29. Two words in virtually all uses - one word only when used as an adjective before a noun in a nautical sense: an underway flotilla
under way
majority
medium
misdemeanor
30. Do not use the term teenaged
who
criteria
crisis
teenage
31. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
like
flaunt
sneaked
aide
32. To abduct - rape or carry away with emotion not interchangeable with ravage
complement
that
sneaked
ravish
33. One who comes into a country ___s to it
immigrate
insure
hopefully
national
34. Transportation vehicle
that
bus
in spite of
beside
35. One who leaves a country ___s from it
drowned
emigrate
wrack
principle
36. Used in proper names and as someone in a parade
marshall
phase
No.
fewer
37. Kiss
as
native
forward
buss
38. To embarrass or disturb
alter
heaven
faze
nicknames
39. Legal term for slaying or killing
homicide
City Council
flaunt
rebut
40. When speaking of an individual
was drowned
person
defendant
who's
41. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
infer
hanged
troupe
navel
42. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
amid
on
magazine names
felony
43. References to insurance
flay
felony
insure
flair
44. Correct spelling for a word that means a channel for communication between groups
widower
principle
liaison
criterion
45. Means to receive
literally
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
her
accept
46. A person who gives advice - never advisor
whom
his
federal
adviser
47. Means to influence
affect
alumna
effect
medium
48. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
founder
flare
49. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
was drowned
in spite of
alter
because
50. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
native
toward
bad
rebut