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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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Subject
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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. Should only be used in place of the person's name if it is what the individual prefers to be known as.
City Hall
aid
hopefully
nicknames
2. Means to influence
titles
imply
magazine names
affect
3. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
collide - collision
century
drowned
alumni
4. 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
daylight saving time
Nobel Prize
fewer
president
5. To avoid any suggestion that someone is being judged before a trial - do not use a phrase such as arrested for killing. Instead - use arrested on a charge of killing. If a charge hasn't been filed - arrested on suspicion of - or a similar phrase - sh
alumni
more than
since
arrest
6. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
comprise
besides
criteria
toward
7. Do not use the term teenaged
beside
teenage
flare
titles
8. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
people
speeds
faze
one another
9. To bog down become disabled or sink
lay
semiannual
buses
founder
10. The of is unnecessary
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
afterward
each other
off of
11. 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.
hopefully
rebut
Legislature
collide - collision
12. One who comes into a country ___s to it
less
composition titles
immigrate
semiannual
13. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
hung
ravage
pour
allege
14. Correct spelling of a words that means to make fit for - or change to suit a new purpose
aid
accommodate
toward
citizen
15. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
magazine names
medium
complement
like
16. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
her
off of
plurality
troupe
17. Copy pertaining to the navy
mean
naval
homicide
besides
18. 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
people
flay
accept
pour
19. Action word - past tense is laid - present participle is laying
composition titles
Nobel Prize
lay
heaven
20. Ashore and not on naval stations flags are flown at
website
half staff
titles
buses
21. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
immigrate
median
staunch
flair
22. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
last
was drowned
ravage
over
23. Kiss
demolish or destroyed
comprise
homicide
buss
24. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
flay
fiance
president
lie
25. Legal term for slaying or killing
homicide
ZIP code
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
national
26. Man to be married
faze
speeds
fiance
it's
27. Plural form of problem or turning point
infer
accommodate
insure
crises
28. Homicide without malice or premeditation
manslaughter
flare
widower
heaven
29. Generally refers to spatial relationships (not numerals)
hanged
faze
over
that
30. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
navel
collide - collision
nicknames
federal
31. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
toward
infer
criterion
person
32. A picture - a criminal or oneself
hang - hangs
his
assure
in spite of
33. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
each other
login - logon - logoff
website
effect
34. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
flair
wrack
troops
complement
35. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
each
it's
plurality
navel
36. Means in addition to
stationary
besides
his
federal
37. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
titles
native
wrack
over
38. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
except
who
fiancee
felony
39. Means to gaze intently or steadily
italics
pore
arrest
all right
40. Twice a year (same as biannual)
in-law
under way
semiannual
principle
41. Implies a standard of average performance for a given group
norm
subject
resident
criteria
42. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
felony
Orient - Oriental
complement
City Hall
43. Twice a year (same as semiannual)
over
biannual
besides
hanged
44. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
demolish or destroyed
courtesy titles
over
phase
45. Noun that means a fundamental truth - law - doctrine - or motivating force
more than
bus
imply
principle
46. Correct spelling for a word that means a channel for communication between groups
altar
criterion
liaison
sneaked
47. Extension of time or degree
Cabinet
that
it's
further
48. Means to flow in a continuous stream
pour
homicide
each
media
49. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
subject
crisis
either
alter
50. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
crisis
farther
flay
less