cloze

cloze
/klohz/, adj.
1. pertaining to or being a procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty, in which a person is called upon to supply elements that have been systematically deleted from a text.
n.
2. a cloze procedure or test.
[1953; back formation from CLOSURE (def. 10), resp. to make it distinct from CLOSE]

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