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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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journalism-and-media
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1. To argue to the contrary
hopefully
NAACP
rebut
City Council
2. Indicates a state of reclining. It does not take a direct object. Its past tense is lay. Its past participle is lain and present participle is lying - when __ means to make an untrue statement - the verb forms are lie - lied - lying.
biennial
semiannual
lie
alumnae
3. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
login - logon - logoff
because
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
accommodate
4. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
widow
aid
rack
since
5. Use the abbreviation for number in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank
No.
alter
murder
email
6. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
citizen
plurality
people
comprise
7. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
firefighter - police officer
teenage
one another
8. Writes or speakers ____s in the words they use
imply
flounder
president
crisis
9. For essential clauses -important to the meaning of a sentence and without commas. Use when referring to inanimate objects and to animals without a name
altar
troop
that
flare
10. 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.
besides
City Council
Fourth of July
lay
11. Malicious - premeditated homicide - some states define certain homicides as this if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery - rape - etc. - do not say a victim was ____ed unless it was proven in court - instead say the victim was killed or
murder
his
affect
allege
12. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
pore
federal
bad
less
13. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
stanch
lay
ensure
ravage
14. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
premier
was drowned
stationery
buses
15. To change
widower
biannual
alter
plurality
16. A preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. requires an object - ex. Jayne blocks ___ a pro.
literally
accommodate
like
manslaughter
17. For hanging not referring to a person's death
its
beside
Internet
hung
18. Correct spelling of an individual or group being sued or charged with a crime
defendant
felony
that
more than
19. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
fiancee
flaunt
all right
in spite of
20. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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21. A table-like platform used in a religious service
altar
troops
in-law
person
22. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
less
flair
courtesy titles
composition titles
23. All tenses of the word that means a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding
compose
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
heaven
bus
24. 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
alumna
norm
misdemeanor
25. To stand still
assure
alter
accept
stationary
26. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
manslaughter
affect
demolish or destroyed
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
27. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
amid
century
refute
nicknames
28. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
teenage
alumnae
buses
toward
29. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
since
flounder
hung
Orient - Oriental
30. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
afterward
stanch
amid
flay
31. In an analogous sense but not in an exact sense
semiannual
figuratively
defendant
widow
32. NOW is acceptable on second reference- HQ is in Washington
rebut
National Organization for Women
alumnus
farther
33. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
website
native
collide - collision
Black muslim
34. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
because
either
over
stationery
35. 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.
adviser
website
figuratively
compliment
36. Means in an exact sense
literally
City Council
login - logon - logoff
bad
37. Physical distance
flyer
was drowned
farther
Black muslim
38. Plural form of a standard
flair
muslims
compliment
criteria
39. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
alumna
its
literally
further
40. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
subject
Legislature
media
reference works
41. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
compose
on
nicknames
flay
42. To make an ostentatious or defiant display
flaunt
alter
off of
phase
43. A group of people - often military or animals
alumni
email
one another
troop
44. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
more than
wrack
busses
navel
45. Means in addition to
ZIP code
besides
misdemeanor
over
46. Correct spelling of a words that means to make fit for - or change to suit a new purpose
login - logon - logoff
accommodate
busses
half staff
47. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school
among
principle
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
alumni
48. A decentralized worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other in later references the Net is acceptable - World Wide Web - like email - is a subset of the Internet. They are not synonymous and should not be used interchangeably.
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
literally
defendant
Internet
49. References to insurance
drowned
reference works
median
insure
50. Means to cause or as a noun means a result
rack
effect
farther
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
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