A drawing, usually in a comic strip, which makes the words of a person in the picture appear to be coming directly from his mouth.
Balloon
100
Greater separation than a comma, but less than a period.
Semicolon
100
Used to set apart television shows.
Italics
100
Being essential, indispensable, or requisite.
Necessary
100
All the News That's Fit to Print
The New York Times
200
A "standard" or large-sized newspaper – like ours!
Broadsheet
200
A character representing the word "and."
Ampersand
200
Which of these is incorrect if placed in the middle of a sentence?
////Biology major////
Dean of Students Bob Rasmussen////
homecoming
Homecoming should be capitalized.
200
Governed by, or made or done according to, what one knows is right; scrupulous; honest.
Conscientious
200
This outlet led the media investigation into the Watergate scandal through the work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
The Washington Post
300
An aluminum sheet that the negative is transferred to so that it can be run on the press.
Plate
300
A set of marks (other than quotation marks) used in some languages to enclose quotations.
Guillemet
300
Used to set apart art shows.
Quotation marks
300
To cause to be set aside or dropped from use as inferior or obsolete and replaced by something else.
Supersede
300
An organization praised by the U.S. government for its work as an independent media outlet in the Middle East, only to have officials later criticize it for having an anti-American bias.
Al-Jazeera
400
The margin between facing pages where the fold lies.
Gutter
400
¶
Pilcrow
400
Do you italicize dance performances or put them in quotation marks?
Italicize
400
The act of listening, either directly or through a stethoscope or other instrument, to sounds within the body as a method of diagnosis.
Auscultation
400
The "_____ effect" emphasizes the power that 24/7 news with live images can have on real-time decisions, especially concerning politics and foreign policy.
CNN
500
Any typographical devise used for ornamentation.
Dingbat
500
A combination an exclamation point and a question mark, indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.