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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. To abduct - rape or carry away with emotion not interchangeable with ravage
medium
ravish
aid
biannual
2. On ships and at naval stations flags are flown at
who
compose
No.
half mast
3. A verb meaning to blaze with sudden - bright light or to burst out in anger
flare
which
refute
pore
4. Do not use the term teenaged
century
nicknames
teenage
adviser
5. 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.
website
which
Orient - Oriental
assure
6. Means in addition to
besides
altar
who's
century
7. Means ruin or destruction and generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin or wracked with doubt (or pain).
Fourth of July
website
wrack
misdemeanor
8. A specific body of advisers heading executive departments for a president - king - governor - etc
Cabinet
principle
beside
Internet
9. Noun. a fish - verb. to move clumsily or jerkily - to flop about
ravish
flounder
website
plurality
10. Used in proper names and as someone in a parade
marshall
infer
muslims
who
11. The preferred term to describe adherents of Islam
faze
affect
muslims
principle
12. Means to flow in a continuous stream
aid
pour
alter
flaunt
13. Never alright. Hyphenate only if used colloquially as a compound modifier: He is an all-right guy.
her
staunch
altar
all right
14. To swing the arms widely
president
flier
courtesy titles
flair
15. 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.
stationary
like
navel
Internet
16. All nouns that mean different computer functions. Must use these in two words when in verb form.
between
login - logon - logoff
italics
rebut
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
median
badly
fewer
18. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
alumnae
imply
all right
on
19. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
City Council
half staff
farther
fiancee
20. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
either...or - neither...nor
marshal
median
media
21. 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
between
flare
off of
either...or - neither...nor
22. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
composition titles
alter
wrack
toward
23. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
alumnae
principal
crises
ZIP code
24. To embarrass or disturb
faze
crisis
buses
either
25. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
fiancee
was drowned
each other
marshall
26. The proper name for some trains and buses
flyer
either...or - neither...nor
assure
buss
27. Acceptable in a casual sense when the first event in a sequence led logically to the second but was not its direct cause
since
navel
flay
Internet
28. Despite means the same thing and is shorter
its
off of
in spite of
murder
29. Copy pertaining to the navy
imply
altar
naval
farther
30. Is used when someone is the object of a verb or preposition
flyer
murder
imply
whom
31. 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.
Internet
hang - hangs
emigrate
national
32. Means more than half of an amount
between
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
president
majority
33. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations
semiannual
nicknames
Orient - Oriental
lie
34. 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
Legislature
faze
staunch
35. Preferred term for an aviator or a handbill
afterward
adviser
flier
alter
36. Transportation vehicle
magazine names
his
bus
among
37. Is the possessive of who
biannual
who
one another
whose
38. Capitalize if preceded by state name or when used in proper title. lowercase in other uses.
emigrate
demolish or destroyed
Legislature
native
39. A table-like platform used in a religious service
arrest
last
citizen
altar
40. Denote a specific cause-effect relationship
fewer
compliment
forward
because
41. Not afterwards
naval
afterward
toward
Cabinet
42. More than two people look atcan be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
among
one another
rock 'n' roll
medium
43. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
Orient - Oriental
ravage
alumni
muslims
44. A minor offense against the law
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
his
whom
misdemeanor
45. Not amidst for a word that means surrounded by; in the middle of
subject
flout
amid
farther
46. Means to influence
people
in spite of
affect
criterion
47. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
principle
accept
navel
lie
48. A group of people - often military or animals
either
each
ZIP code
troop
49. Completeness of process of supplementing something
complement
criterion
City Hall
manslaughter
50. 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.
accommodate
citizen
hopefully
last