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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. Homicide without malice or premeditation
reference works
buses
person
manslaughter
2. Means to exclude
under way
except
semiannual
navel
3. Literally - to strip off the skin by whipping - figuratively to tongue-lash a person
resident
Black muslim
one another
flay
4. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
one another
accept
murder
Legislature
5. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
emigrate
ZIP code
flare
liaison
6. Means more than the highest number (subtract lower number from highest number to get this)
citizen
each other
plurality
whom
7. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
biannual
sneaked
flier
as
8. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
courtesy titles
National Organization for Women
accept
demolish or destroyed
9. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
criteria
hanged
troupe
average
10. One who leaves a country ___s from it
Legislature
emigrate
either...or - neither...nor
ZIP code
11. Never okay - all tenses of a word meaning all right
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12. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
alumna
murder
lay
sneaked
13. To change
that
widow
under way
alter
14. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
ensure
ravage
imply
flounder
15. Means to make sure or give confidence
people
assure
stationary
emigrate
16. A picture - a criminal or oneself
reference works
hang - hangs
titles
norm
17. 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
fewer
flout
Orient - Oriental
18. 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
either
Fourth of July
aid
firefighter - police officer
19. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
norm
alumnus
his
since
20. Is the possessive form of the neuter pronoun
figuratively
its
was drowned
titles
21. Is the middle number of points in a series arranged in order of size
flare
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
median
compliment
22. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
widow
bad
alumni
rebut
23. Means in an exact sense
Orient - Oriental
literally
federal
besides
24. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
imply
wrack
emigrate
media
25. Is the possessive of who
except
lay
whose
widower
26. 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
ensure
murder
composition titles
lay
27. The of is unnecessary
people
off of
immigrate
stanch
28. To argue to the contrary
among
alumna
biannual
rebut
29. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
less
marshall
collide - collision
farther
30. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
login - logon - logoff
imply
more than
as
31. Do not use the colloquial past tense form - pled. All tenses of a word that means appeal or request earnestly
that
phase
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
president
32. Use the abbreviation for number in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank
No.
accommodate
flounder
manslaughter
33. Correct spelling of an individual or group being sued or charged with a crime
flout
defendant
mean
faze
34. A first performance
in-law
stanch
primiere
teenage
35. Serious crime - someone is a felon if the have been convicted of a felony whether or not they have spent time in confinement
primiere
comprise
people
felony
36. Verb to stop the flow of something
her
stanch
hang - hangs
alumna
37. To swing the arms widely
flair
fewer
composition titles
lay
38. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
people
muslims
person
farther
39. Use all-caps ZIP for zoning improvement plan - but always lowercase the word code - run the 5 digits together without a comma and do not put a comma between state name and ZIP
ZIP code
homicide
aid
complement
40. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
afterward
login - logon - logoff
sneaked
rack
41. Kiss
buss
president
like
widower
42. Connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgement
refute
forward
was drowned
aid
43. When referring to a group of men or men and women who attended a school
reference works
was drowned
alumni
more than
44. Takes a singular verb
troop
emigrate
assure
each
45. Capitalize with the name of city or when referenced specifically. lowercase when plural and when used generically (you can't fight city hall)
City Hall
flaunt
firefighter - police officer
criteria
46. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
Nobel Prize
plurality
insure
native
47. The title of an individual who is the first minister in a national government that has a council of ministers. also the correct title for individuals who lead the provincial governments in canada and australia
premier
Legislature
speeds
Cabinet
48. 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
composition titles
No.
immigrate
aid
49. Twice a year (same as biannual)
afterward
like
semiannual
further
50. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
crises
widower
flounder
effect