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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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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. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
Orient - Oriental
since
rack
wrack
2. One who leaves a country ___s from it
criteria
emigrate
Orient - Oriental
naval
3. Means to flow in a continuous stream
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
pour
arrest
Cabinet
4. A preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. requires an object - ex. Jayne blocks ___ a pro.
like
City Hall
accommodate
on
5. Used in proper names and as someone in a parade
marshall
like
phase
National Organization for Women
6. Woman to be married
email
fiancee
daylight saving time
buss
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
as
whom
between
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
8. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
like
on
Fourth of July
Internet
9. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
amid
faze
all right
figuratively
10. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
biennial
which
rack
on
11. Verb to stop the flow of something
stanch
that
resident
accept
12. Capitalize for architectural style or corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their name. Lowercase when used as an adjective.
less
alumnae
each
federal
13. 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.
rack
flout
marshall
website
14. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
daylight saving time
City Hall
century
City Council
15. For hanging not referring to a person's death
Orient - Oriental
norm
hung
resident
16. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
aid
more than
farther
flare
17. Legal term for slaying or killing
homicide
stanch
navel
rack
18. Create or put together. It is commonly used actively and passively.
between
stationary
imply
compose
19. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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20. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
pore
Legislature
fewer
because
21. Means to make sure or give confidence
mean
stationary
flier
assure
22. Introduces two items - is the correct word when expressing the relationships of three or more items considered one pair at a time - all pronouns must be in the objective case - between him and her - between you and me
National Organization for Women
between
average
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
23. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
in spite of
impostor
widow
bad
24. Capitalize initials of name but do not place in quotes
ensure
magazine names
arrest
half mast
25. Contain to include all or embrace. Used only actively.
comprise
accept
Fourth of July
each other
26. Should not be used as an adverb - use only as adjective. "I feel badly" - could be interpreted as meaning that your sense of touch was bad.
alter
email
badly
rack
27. The of is unnecessary
more than
off of
refute
nicknames
28. Refers to inhabitants of states and cities
primiere
each other
resident
it's
29. Means to exclude
hung
except
mean
flare
30. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
altar
City Hall
more than
Black muslim
31. 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
fiancee
complement
arrest
32. In an analogous sense but not in an exact sense
figuratively
NAACP
magazine names
Fourth of July
33. When referring to a man who has attended a school
affect
alumnus
afterward
marshal
34. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
primiere
stanch
35. A contraction for it is or it has
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36. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
either...or - neither...nor
courtesy titles
immigrate
founder
37. Means to guarantee
complement
ensure
which
plurality
38. Correct spelling for all uses of a word that means to happen or take place
crises
compose
figuratively
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
39. Takes plural verb - use it to mean one or the other - not both - right: she said to use either door - wrong: there were lions on either side of the door
it's
either
compliment
on
40. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
misdemeanor
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
native
biennial
41. Means to influence
native
affect
troop
biennial
42. Copy pertaining to the navy
naval
demolish or destroyed
one another
farther
43. For: peace - chemistry - literature - physics and physiology or medicine - the prize in economic studies is in memorial to alfred and should be referred to as such - ceremonies are held on Dec. 10 - Capitalize when with name - lowercase when not with
Nobel Prize
average
rebut
lay
44. Plural form of a standard
National Organization for Women
criteria
norm
fiance
45. Singular form of a standard
each
Black muslim
criterion
crises
46. 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.
biannual
Internet
further
alumnus
47. The way a message is getting out through the media such as a telephone or tv set
stanch
either...or - neither...nor
flaunt
medium
48. Applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen - or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.
resident
national
in spite of
Nobel Prize
49. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
between
flyer
median
muslims
50. 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
half mast
firefighter - police officer
composition titles
alumni