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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. Both mean to do away with something completely. It cannot happen partially and is redundant to say it happened totally.
hopefully
flout
biannual
demolish or destroyed
2. To embarrass or disturb
who
flout
president
faze
3. Use numerals - abbreviate mph - avoid hyphenated constructions
speeds
as
people
besides
4. Means at the side of
stationary
staunch
Fourth of July
beside
5. A picture - a criminal or oneself
imply
email
hang - hangs
insure
6. When referring to a woman who has attended a school
nicknames
alumna
liaison
Internet
7. To be used instead of the sexist terms
alumni
founder
firefighter - police officer
fiance
8. Copy pertaining to the navy
off of
naval
Nobel Prize
collide - collision
9. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
widow
defendant
aid
collide - collision
10. Plural form of a standard
primiere
marshall
semiannual
criteria
11. Past tense when referring to executions or suicides
either...or - neither...nor
daylight saving time
principle
hanged
12. Preferred as past tense of sneak. Never use snuck
hung
troupe
sneaked
crisis
13. To argue to the contrary
either...or - neither...nor
rebut
drowned
farther
14. Preferred with numerals (instead of over)
more than
majority
mean
criteria
15. Kisses
buss
on
subpoena - subpoenaed - subpoenaing
busses
16. Denotes praise of the expression of courtesy
compliment
infer
because
people
17. A person who has acquired the full civil rights of a nation either by birth or naturalization. Cities and states in the U.S. do not confer citizenship.
Legislature
that
hanged
citizen
18. Use instead "survived by her husband" or "leaves her husband" not ______ of the late
mean
figuratively
troops
widower
19. Applies to various types of framework - the verb means to arrange on a rack - to torture - trouble or torment -
emigrate
email
aid
rack
20. If a person suffocates in water or other fluid
more than
one another
drowned
literally
21. A preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. requires an object - ex. Jayne blocks ___ a pro.
his
majority
occur - occurred - occurring - occurrence
like
22. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
pour
his
Cabinet
afterward
23. A minor offense against the law
besides
imply
misdemeanor
busses
24. To show contempt for
allege
aid
flout
Fourth of July
25. An aspect or stage
as
phase
accept
medium
26. Is a bellybutton - or a seedless orange so named because it has a depression that resembles a bellybutton
ravish
ZIP code
was drowned
navel
27. Use the abbreviation for number in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank
was drowned
No.
accept
alumna
28. For hanging not referring to a person's death
complement
her
heaven
hung
29. 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.
stationary
phase
Fourth of July
plurality
30. Individual items reduced in number
fewer
widower
City Council
staunch
31. The pronoun used for references to human beings and to animals with a name
principle
homicide
who
because
32. 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
fiancee
aide
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
collide - collision
City Council
Orient - Oriental
because
34. Every two years
fewer
biennial
person
refute
35. Takes a singular verb
which
last
each
plurality
36. Capitalize initials of name but do not place in quotes
among
bus
citizen
magazine names
37. A listener or reader ____s something from the words
except
people
infer
who
38. In an analogous sense but not in an exact sense
figuratively
rack
navel
pour
39. Kiss
buss
alumnae
manslaughter
last
40. Means more than half of an amount
insure
compliment
majority
defendant
41. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
resident
it's
native
last
42. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
crisis
each other
hung
national
43. To bog down become disabled or sink
founder
aide
Fourth of July
hopefully
44. Capitalize their proper names - do not use quotes
adviser
City Council
alumni
reference works
45. Refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added together
medium
hung
average
adviser
46. Lowercase - spell out the numbers less than 10
century
flare
stanch
hung
47. A person who gives advice - never advisor
one another
adviser
homicide
his
48. Do not use these titles just refer to person by first and last name.
who
courtesy titles
manslaughter
under way
49. Is a contraction of who is - no possessive
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50. 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
more than
arrest
phase
either
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