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cloze

[klohz] Origin

cloze

[klohz]
adjective
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.
noun
2.
a cloze procedure or test.

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Cloze is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1953; back formation from closure (def. 10), respelling to make it distinct from close

close, cloth, clothe, clothes, cloze (see synonym note at close).
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cloze
1953, in psychological writing, abstracted from closure.
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