AP Style Vocab

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
• If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
• Match each statement with the correct term.
• Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Accommodate

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


2. assault rifle

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


3. more than
Yep.
Use illegal only to mean a violation of the law. Be especially careful in labor management disputes - where one side often calls an action by the other side illegal. Usually it is a charge that a contract or rule - not a law - has been violated
The verbs: sandbagged - sandbagging. And: sandbagger
Preferred with numerals


4. Capitol
A prefix denoting 1000 units of a measure. Move a decimal point three places to the right - adding zeros if necessary to convert to the basic unit: 10.5 kilograms equals 10 -500 grams
Saudi Aramco is acceptable on second reference. (Formerly the Arabian American Oil Co.)
Capitalize building in Washington
A firearm that fires continuously as long as the trigger is depressed. Examples include machine guns and submachine guns


5. flyer
Create or put together
Tape recording (n.) tape-record (v.)
Proper name of some trains and buses
Use figures spell out inches - feet - yards hyphen adjectival forms before nouns


6. San Francisco
No e
The city in California stands alone in datelines
Preferred to persons as the plural
Ketchup


7. tear gas
Tattletale
A fully automatic gun that fires as long as the trigger is depressed. The form: a .50 caliber Browning machine gun.
This organization is limited to the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring Suffolk County in providing animal adoption services - although it has offices elsewhere that offer legal advice and other services to other animal welfare organizatio
Two Words.


8. teaspoonful - teaspoonfuls
Extension of time or degree
The verbs: sandbagged - sandbagging. And: sandbagger
NOT teaspoonsful
A firearm that fires only once for each pull of the trigger. It reloads after each shot. The form: a semi-automatic rifle - a semi-automatic weapon - a semi-automatic pistol


9. Saint John

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


10. Adviser
Small lead or steel pellets fired by shotguns. A shotgun shell usually contains 1 to 2 ounces of shot. Do not use shot interchangeable with buckshot - which refers only to the largest shot sizes
No O
Their = possessive pronoun - there= adverb indicating direction - they're= contraction for they are
A trademark for a brand of hot pepper sauce


11. imply - infer
It means without preparation of advance thought
To argue to the contrary
Writers or speakers imply in the words they use. A listener or reader infers something from the words
Yep.


12. who
Is pronoun that is always a subject
In second reference: the America Exchange - Amex - or the exchange
Untrue statement - lie -lied -lying
A unit of power - mostly associated with electricity. Electrical energy is measured in watt-hours (or kilowatt-hours or mega-watt hours). Do not use 'megawatts Per hours.' Abbrev.: W - kW - MW.


13. Target Corp.
Preferred to persons as the plural
Spell out when standing alone; when with a city - town - village or military base abbreviate unless Alaska - Hawaii - Idaho -Iowa - Maine - Ohio - Texas and Utah.
Headquarters is in Minneapolis
Spatial relationships


14. kerosene
Bad should not be used as an adverb only exceptation is I feel bad.
Weak-kneed
The metric term for 1000 meters. (Abbrev.: km) A kilometer is equal to approximately 3 -281 feet - or five-eighths (0.62) of a mile. To convert to miles - multiply by 0.62 (5 kilometers x 0.62 equals 3.1 miles).
Formerly a trademark - now a generic term


15. magazine
Action word lay - laid - laying
Weak-kneed
The ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a firearm. It may be fixed to the firearm or detachable
Tail wind


16. Americorps
The collection of writings that constitute the Jewish civil and religious law
Salvo - salvos
Americorps
Contain - include all - or embrace


17. immigrate
One who comes into a country immigrates
Individual items;fewer than 10 applicants called. I had fewer than 50 $1 bills in my pocket
Only when person prefers to be known that way; use quotation marks for Brandon 'Scoop' Carter; commonly used nicknames can be replaced for first names
Two Words.


18. principle
But lowercase devil and satanic
Writing paper
In second reference: the America Exchange - Amex - or the exchange
A fundamental truth - law - doctrine or motivating force


19. kilowatt-hour
Capitalize only when used before the name of royalty: King George VI. Continue in subsequent references that use the king's given name: King George - not George. Lowercase king when it stands alone. Capitalize in phrases such as strikeout king Nolan
Gun is an acceptable term for any firearm
USE WITH GREAT CARE specify source of allegation avoid redundant uses ex. accused her of allegedly
The amount of electrical energy consumed when 1000 watts are used for one hour. The abbreviation kwh is acceptable on second reference.


20. women vs girls
Takes singluar verb two people look at each other
Use figures EXCEPT for zero spell out minus and degrees; temperatures get higher & lower
Use days of the week not today or tonight in print avoid saying next Monday or last Monday
After a girl reach the age 18 use woman or young woman


21. SAM - SAMs
Acceptable on second reference for surface-to-air missile(s)
A compact - relatively inexpensive handgun
NOT teaspoonsful
This organization is limited to the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring Suffolk County in providing animal adoption services - although it has offices elsewhere that offer legal advice and other services to other animal welfare organizatio


22. Kelvin scale
A scale of temperature based on - but different from - the Celsius scale. It is used primarily in science to record very high and very low temperatures. The Kelvin scale starts at zero and indicates the total absence of heat (absolute zero). Zero on
Sandwich
Verb to gaze intently or steadily
The maxim that between introduces two items and among introduces more than two covers most questions about how to use these words: The funds were divided among Ford - Carter and McCarthy. However - between is the correct word when expressing the rela


23. artillery
No O
A carriage-mounted cannon
Noun and verb denoting completeness or supplementing something
Do NOT use teenaged


24. constitute

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


25. kilo
A prefix denoting 1000 units of a measure. Move a decimal point three places to the right - adding zeros if necessary to convert to the basic unit: 10.5 kilograms equals 10 -500 grams
Abbreviate Ky. in datelines or stories. Postal code: KY
Writers or speakers imply in the words they use. A listener or reader infers something from the words
Tattletale


26. Figures - Multiple letters and Words as plural
The verbs: sandbagged - sandbagging. And: sandbagger
Action word lay - laid - laying
Proper tenses for impel
Add s NO APOSTROPHES:1930s - ifs - buts - ands - low 20s - ABCs - Four VIPs


27. Samsung Electronics
Headquarters is in Seoul - South Korea
Saboteur
The city in California stands alone in datelines
Use figures. The form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (From the United States) - the country code - the city code and the telephone number: 011-44-20-7535-1515. Use hyphens - not periods. The forms for toll free numbers: 800-111-1000


28. Imax Corp.
Headquarters is in Mississauga - Ontario
Tape recording (n.) tape-record (v.)
NOT teaspoonsful
Individual items;fewer than 10 applicants called. I had fewer than 50 $1 bills in my pocket


29. murder
Equal to one-sixth of a fluid ounce - or one-third of a tablespoon. The metric equivalent is approximately 5 milliliters
Only used in a direct quote or part of a title
Proper name of some trains and buses
Malicious - premeditated homicide; Do not describe as murder until person has been convicted


30. capital
Small lead or steel pellets fired by shotguns. A shotgun shell usually contains 1 to 2 ounces of shot. Do not use shot interchangeable with buckshot - which refers only to the largest shot sizes
Describes money - do not capitalize - city where a seat of government is located
Precede with a hyphen: break-in - cave-in - walk-in - write-in
Sanitarium - sanitariums


31. salvo - salvos
Individual items;fewer than 10 applicants called. I had fewer than 50 $1 bills in my pocket
Not compound subject; requires a verb that agrees with the nearer subject
Salvo - salvos
Proper name of some trains and buses


32. pistol
Yep.
Ketchup
A handgun that can be a single shot or a semi-automatic. It is measured in calibers. The form: a .45-caliber revolver
Capitalize building in Washington


33. a.m. - p.m.
Take over (v.) takeover (n. and adj)
Use Taiwan - not Formosa - in reverences to the government in Taiwan and the island itself
Use illegal only to mean a violation of the law. Be especially careful in labor management disputes - where one side often calls an action by the other side illegal. Usually it is a charge that a contract or rule - not a law - has been violated
Lowercase with periods avoid the redundant 10 a.m. this morning


34. over
Tablecloth
DON'T USE IN PRINT
Spatial relationships
Sandwich


35. imam
This organization is limited to the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring Suffolk County in providing animal adoption services - although it has offices elsewhere that offer legal advice and other services to other animal welfare organizatio
Add s NO APOSTROPHES:1930s - ifs - buts - ands - low 20s - ABCs - Four VIPs
Lowercase when describing the leader of a prayer in a Muslim mosque. Capitalize before a name when used as the formal title for a Muslim leader or ruler
Use figures. The form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (From the United States) - the country code - the city code and the telephone number: 011-44-20-7535-1515. Use hyphens - not periods. The forms for toll free numbers: 800-111-1000


36. flier
Handgun
An aviator or handbill; pass out those fliers
A province of Canada north of Montana and North Dakota. Do not abbreviate
Small lead or steel pellets fired by shotguns. A shotgun shell usually contains 1 to 2 ounces of shot. Do not use shot interchangeable with buckshot - which refers only to the largest shot sizes


37. Illinois
Santa Claus
Capitalize them
Abbreviate Ill. in datelines or stories. Postal code: IL
Once limited to accepting deposits and making home mortgage loans - they are not banks. Since enactment of the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery Act in 1989


38. SAT
Salable
A weapon - usually supported on some type of carriage - that fires explosive projectiles. The form: a 105 mm cannon
Use only the initials in referring to the previously designed Scholastic Aptitude Test or the Scholastic Assessment Test. Example: The students scored above average on the SAT
APT is acceptable on second reference. Headquarters is in Reston - Va.


39. impassable - impassible - impassive

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


40. Tass

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


41. shotgun
No O
Acronym for improvised explosive device. IED is acceptable on second reference. Roadside bomb is preferable
A firearm typically used to fire small spherical pellets called shot. Shotguns usually have a smooth bore barrel - but some contain a rifled barrel - Which is used to fire a single projectile. Size is measured according to gauge - except for the .410
Two Words.


42. Saskatchewan
Spatial relationships
It has become a generic term - no longer a trademark - for a type of television cuing device
The maxim that between introduces two items and among introduces more than two covers most questions about how to use these words: The funds were divided among Ford - Carter and McCarthy. However - between is the correct word when expressing the rela
A province of Canada north of Montana and North Dakota. Do not abbreviate


43. IBM
The '90s - 1920s
Americorps
Acceptable as first reference for International Business Machines Corp. Headquarters is in Armonk - NY
Impassable means that passage is impossible: The bridge was impassable. Impassible and impassive describe lack of sensitivity to pain or suffering. Webster's New World College Dictionary notes - however - that impassible suggest an inability to be af


44. Salt Lake City
The city in Utah stands alone in datelines
The measure of the size of a shotgun. Gauge is expressed in terms of the number Per pound of round lead balls with a diameter equal to the size of the barrel. The bigger the number - the smaller the shotgun. The forms: a 12-gauge shotgun - a .410-gau
Impostor
Teammate


45. tabular matter
Exceptions may be made to the normal rules for abbreviations - as necessary to make material fit. But make any abbreviations as clear as possible
Preposition to compare nouns and pronouns Jim blocks like a pro
Do NOT use teenaged
Lowercase spell out numbers less than 10


46. semi-automatic
Most ending in z or es or s add es: Joneses - Gonzalezes - Charleses
A unit of measurement for digital data storage. In the metric system - a kilobyte is 1000 bytes; in computer binary terms - it is 1 -024 bytes. Thus - 64KB means 64 times 1 -024 bytes - or 65 -536 bytes (not 64000). Abbrev.: KB. (similarly - MB for m
Take-home pay
A firearm that fires only once for each pull of the trigger. It reloads after each shot. The form: a semi-automatic rifle - a semi-automatic weapon - a semi-automatic pistol


47. a.m. - p.m.
Americorps
Lowercase with periods. Avoid the redundant 10 a.m. this morning.
Use figures except for noon and midnight
Abbreviate St. in the names of saints - cities - and other places: St. Jude - St. Paul - Minn.; St. John's - Newfoundland; St. Lawrence Seaway


48. like
See shot
Santa Claus
Preposition to compare nouns and pronouns Jim blocks like a pro
The standard British gallon - equal to 277.42 cubic inches or about 1.2 US gallons. The metric equivalent is approximately 4.5 liters


49. shell
The word applies to military or naval ammunition and to shotgun ammunition
To argue to the contrary
Twice a year
The metric term for 1000 grams. A kilogram is equal to approximately 2.2 pounds or 35 ounces. To convert to pounds - multiply by 2.2 (9 kilograms x 2.2 equals 19.8 pounds)


50. Accept
Extremist Islamic movement that ruled Afghanistan until driven out by U.S.-led coalition after the Sept. 11 - 2001 - attacks. It continues to operate as insugent force with adherents in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The name derives from the Arabic word
Take out (v.) take out (n. and adj)
To receive
The metric term for 1000 meters. (Abbrev.: km) A kilometer is equal to approximately 3 -281 feet - or five-eighths (0.62) of a mile. To convert to miles - multiply by 0.62 (5 kilometers x 0.62 equals 3.1 miles).