Journalism Word Usage
Terms
undefined, object
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- about/approximately NOT
- around
- accept
- receive, undertake, agree to
- except
- otherwise,exclude,rejext
- accused of NOT
- accused with
- Amendments, ordinances, resolutions and rules are...
- adopted or apporoved
- Bills are
- passed
- Laws are
- entacted
- adverse
- unfavorable
- averse
- opposed
- advice
- n: opinion, recommendation
- advise
- v: to give advice
- affect
- v: to influence
- effect
-
v: to cause, to bring about
n: result - afterward NOT
- afterwards
- aggravate
-
to add to, to increase
I aggravated the salt - irritate
-
to annoy
She irritates me. - agnostic
- a person who believes it is immpossiible to know whether there is a God
- atheist
- a person who believes there is no God
- aid
- to help
- aide
-
an assistant
The health care aide gives great advice. - all right NOT
- alright
- allude to
-
to speak of something without specifically mentioning it
She alluded to the fact that the test would be hard - elude
-
dodge, escape
She eluded the police - refer to
-
to mention it directly
She refered to the poster in her presentation. - allusion
- an indirect reference
- illusion
- an unreal or false impression
- a lot NOT
- alot
- altar
- in a church
- alter
- to change
- altogether
-
adv: wholly, entirely
You are altogether to funny. - all together
-
adj: in a group
They were all together in school. - alumnus
- male singular
- alumni
- male plurual or group of men and women
- alumna
- female singular
- alumnae
- female plurual
- among
-
more than two
The argument was among Sarah, Jessica and Eve. - between
-
two
The argument was between me and lucy. - angel
- has wings, financial backer
- angle
- mathematics, point of view
- arrangement
- settle, adjest, proper order
- arraignment
- answer an indictment, a legal term
- arrested on NOT
-
arrested for
He was arrested on the charge of murder. - assassin
- a politically motivated killer
- killer
- anyone who kills with a motive of any kind
- murderer
- one who is convicted of murder in a court of law
- assistance
- v: to help
- assistants
- n: helpers
- avocation
-
hobby, pleausre
My avocation is reading. - vocation
-
business, profession, occupation
My vocation is teaching. - award
- honor
- reward
- payment
- When is a while used?
-
when preceeded by for
Sit down for a while. - When is awhile used?
-
when it is not preceeded by for
sit down awhile. - balence is not synonymous with
- remainder or rest of
- baloney
- foolish or exaggerated talk
- bologna
- the suasage or luncheon meat
- bare
- to expose
- bear
- animal
- beside
- by the side of, next to
- besides
- in addition to, other than
- bizarre
- unusual
- bazaar
-
a fair
Our church held a bazaar for charity. - bloc
- a coalition of person, a group with the same goal.
- do not confuse bloc with _?
- block
- bridal
- with a wedding
- bridle
- horse headgear, restrain, an expression of pride, scorn or pique
- bug
- a concealed listening device designed to pick up sounds in a room or automoblie.
- tap
- a device attached to a telephone circuit to puck up conversations on the line.
- byte
- computers
- canon
- law or rule particularly of a chruch
- cannon
- weapon or gun
- cannot NOT
- can not
- can hardly NOT
- can't hardly
- capital
- city, money, capital letter
- Capitol
- building with a dome in WAshington, Montgomery etc.
- canvas
- the cloth, or what you paint on
- canvass
-
to solicit, seek out, sift
i canvass for the MArch of dimes. - center on NOT
- centered around or revovled around
- cite
- single out, bring forward
- site
- location
- sight
- see, view
- clause
- part of a sentence
- claws
- animal toenails
- cleanup
-
noun or adj:
The cleanup was held in the park. - clean up
-
v:
Go clean up your room! - coarse
- texture, not refined
- course
- direction, study of
- collide is only used when...
-
both of the objects are in motion
The truck and car collied on the highway. - struck is used when
-
one object is in motion and the other is stationery.
The car struck the dumpster at 90 m/h. - compliment
- admire, praise
- complement
-
full quantity, number
Your shirt complements that skirt nicely. - consicence
-
moral sense
My conscience tells me this is not right. - conscious
-
awake, aware
Were you conscious after the fall? - conscientious
-
sincere, faithful
She is such a conscientious student. - corps
-
organized group of people
I want to join the peace corps. - corpse
- human or animal body
- contemptible
-
n: worthy of contempt, despicable
It was a comtemptible act. - contemptuous
-
V: expressing contempt or disdain
She was contemptuous of the chairman. - coucil
- assembly or group
- councilor
- member of assembly
- counsel
- v: advise, recommend
- counselor
- n: adviser
- consul
- goverment representative with State Department
- cover up
-
v:
She covered up the paintings. - cover -up
-
n and adj:
She wore her swimsuit cover-up to the lake. - crime
- violation of governmental law
- sin
- violation of religious law
- vice
- violation of moral law
- damage
-
destruction
Authorities said damge from the storm would total more than 1 billion. - damages
-
awarded by a courst as compensation for injury, losss, etc
the woman received 25000 in damages. - decent
-
competent, having good qualities
He's a decent person. - descent
-
ancestry, drop, fall
We made the descent down the mountain. - dissent
-
to disaggre
I dissent with the arguments she made. - dissension
- discord, lack of harmony
- decimate
- to reduce drastically especially in number; to destroy a small part of
- Do not use _ in replace of decimate?
- destruction because that is total
- desert
- v: to abandon
- dessert
- the food
- dominant
-
adj:
The brown dominant gene showed up in the kids. - dominate
- v: The cats dominated the soccer game.
- dual
- two
- duel
- a contest between two persons
- elicit
- seek
- illicit
- illegal
- eniment
- great, famous
- imminent
- to occur shortly
- entitled
-
a right to do or have something
She was entitled to the promotion. - do not confuse entitle with
- Title
- faint
- pass out
- feint
- fake, pretned
- envelope
- for letters
- envelop
- surround, enclose
- fair
- weather, an event
- fare
-
menu, cost
the fare is 5 bucks. - farther
-
phsyical distance
We must go farther up the mountain. - further
- extension of time or degree
- faze
-
to embarrass or disturb
That boy did not even faze her. - phase
-
denotes an aspect or stage
The first phase will begin tomarrow. - fewer
-
refers to individual items
We had fewer students than the other class. - less
-
refers to bulk or quantity
We had less wine than the table next to us. - final
- last
- finale
- concluding act
- finalize should...
- NEVER BE USED
- flack
- slang for a press agent
- flak
- a type of anti-aircraft fire,
- flier
- handbill
- flyer
- The Western Flyer
- follow up
- v: You need to follow up on all those meetings.
- follow-up
- N: We will have a follow-up meeting in a week.
- flout
- to mock, scoff, show disdain for
- flaunt
- display ostentatiously or conspicuously
- foreward
- begininning of a book
- forward
- to move ahead
- forward NOt
- forewards
- formally
-
formal manner
i formally invivte you to a ball. - formerly
- previously
- foul
- offensive, out of line
- fowl
- a bird
- full time
-
v:
He works full time. - full-time
-
adj:
You need to get a full-time job. - fund raising
- V: Fund raising is hard.
- fund-raising
-
adj:
They planned a fund-raising campaign. - gorilla
- ape
- guerrilla
- irregular
- hangar
- a building for planes
- hanger
- used for clothes
- hurdle
- barrier to leap over
- hurtle
- to rush suddenly with violence
- impeach
- to accuse or bring charges aginst
- impeach can not be interchanged with
- convict
- immigrate
-
come into
We immigrated to France. - emigrate
-
leave from
We emigrated from Ireland. - incidence
-
range or rate of occurrence
The incidence of rabies was great in 1998. - incidents
-
events
The two incidents led to his dismissal. - infer
- assume, draw from
- imply
-
suggest, signify
the speaker implies that you should eat. - insinuate
- suggest, usually negative or unflattering
- regardless NOT
- irregardless
- isle
- island
- aidle
- walkway
- later
-
succedding at another time.
I'll do that later. - latter
-
second of two
She will be the latter in the preformance. - ladder
- you climb it
- lesson
- in learning
- lessen
- decrease
- libel
-
a false publication as in writing, print, signs or pictures that damages a person's reputation
The newspaper was charged with libel by a political candidate - liable
-
likely, responsible for
If you dent to rental car, you are liable for the damange. - litany
- a prayer
- litany NOt
- list
- loan
-
Noun
I gave her the loan. - lend
-
verb
Did you lend Katie 50 bucks? - marital
- marriage
- martial
- military
- media
-
takes pluarl verb.
The media drives me crazy - medium
- singular of media
- nauseated
-
to be sick
I was nauseated this morning. - nauseous
-
sickening or disgusting
That is the most nauseous thing i've ever seen. - ordinance
- regulation
- ordnance
- military supplies, weapons
- part-time
-
adj:
You need a part-time job. - part time
-
v:
Do you work part time? - patience
- self control
- patients
- clients of a doctor
- pear
- fruit
- pare
- peel or strip, reduce
- pair
- two
- peddle
- selling
- pedal
- bicycle
- percent is a word or %
- a word
- perspective
- outlook, mental view
- prospective
- potential
- pore
-
v: to gaze intently or steadily.
She pored over the books - pour
-
to flow in a continuous stream
it poured rain - praise
- compliment, flatter
- preys
- siezing upon, plundering
- prays
- religion
- precede
- before, in advnace of
- proceed
- to move ahead
- premier
- first in rank
- premiere
- first public preformance
- pretense
-
a false show, an overt act to conceal personal feelings
His profuse compliments were all a pretense. - pretext
-
something put forward to coneal the truth, an excuse
He was fired for tardiness, but this was only a pretext for incompetence. - principal
- chief, number one, school principal, banking
- principle
- basic doctrine, fundamental truth
- raise
- salary, move upwards
- rays
- sunshine
- raze
-
tear down, lay level with the ground
the building was razed to build a new one. - reared
- children are reared or raised
- raised
- aniamls are raised but not reared
- recur NOt
- reoccur
- refute
- to disprove
- refute is not a synonym for
- denied or disputed
- reluctant
- unwilling to act
- reticent
- unwilling to speak
- respectively
- each to each
- respectfully
- showing deference, with regard
- room numbers
- Room 2
- sewage
- waste matter
- sewerage
- the drainage system
- When talking about ships or nations which pronoun do you use?
-
it
not she - stationery
- writing paper
- stationary
- not moving
- statute
- law, regulation
- sature
- quality of being impressive, exhalted
- statue
- momument, sculpture
- taught
- learned
- taunt
- tempt, dare
- taut
- tight