Across
- 2. Is not a word and should only be used when quoting or in special contexts
- 4. City where a seat of government is located; do not capitalize
- 5. Minor offense against the law
- 10. List the subject first when referring to a ____________
- 12. A serious crime
- 13. Should contain a city name, entirely in capital letters, followed in most cases by the name of the state, county, or territory where the city is located
- 15. Is not a formal title and should not be capitalized
- 16. Use before vowel sounds
- 18. The news gathering cooperative dating from 1846
- 20. AP news reports must use __________ for facts not gathered or confirmed on its own
- 21. Abbreviation for Exchange Traded Fund; Security that tracks a benchmark as a mutual fund does but trades throughout market days like a stock on the exchange
- 25. Always capitalize both letters though it's a title not a name, it's the only thing used when referring to him
- 28. When referring to a company, you must use the full ________ _________ somewhere in the story; do not use comma before Inc. or Ltd.
- 32. Use before consonant sounds
- 33. Use arabic numerals instead of words when describing ________
- 34. Use ________ to mean guarantee
- 35. The study of the relationship between organisms and their surroundings, not synonymous with environment
- 36. This word should be capitalized, without quotation marks when referring to the Scriptures in the Old or New Testament
- 37. Anyone who kills with a motive of any kind
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- 1. Capitalize U.S. _________ when referring to the building in Washington
- 2. Always avoid placing guilt when referring to someone who has been placed under ________ or charged with a crime
- 3. A government controlled company that helps provide money for the US housing market by buying residential mortgages and packaging pools of those loans for sale to investors
- 4. A person who has required the full civil rights of a nation
- 6. As a verb means to cause; as a noun means the result of something
- 7. Dr., Mrs., and Mr. are all examples of __________
- 8. Money or property that is held to be forfeited if an accused individual fails to appeal for a criminal trial
- 9. Describes an exchange rate that is allowed to fluctuate in response to supply and demand in the foreign markets
- 11. A person residing away from the nation in which he or she is a citizen
- 14. These are amounts less than one that need to be spelled out using hyphens between the words (Ex.two-thirds, three-fourths)
- 16. The word "_________" on its own is not capitalized but it is capitalized as a part of a proper name
- 17. A case the state or federal government brings against an individual charged with a crime
- 19. Use ________ for references to insurance
- 20. Refers to the entire region around the Appalachian Mountains
- 22. The national office of an ambassador in a foreign country and the office that handles the political relations of one nation with another
- 23. Term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
- 24. A case in which and individual, business, or agency of government seeks damages or relief from another
- 25. In general use lowercase north, south, southwest when referring to compass ___________
- 26. As a verb means to influence something
- 27. Use ________ to make sure or give confidence
- 29. Someone who is convicted of murder in a court of law
- 30. Someone who kills a politically important or prominent person
- 31. Never use this symbol as it rarely translates and in many cases cannot be seen by AP or other newspaper computers