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cloze test

British  
/ kləʊz /

noun

  1. a test of the ability to comprehend text in which the reader has to supply the missing words that have been removed from the text at regular intervals

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Etymology

Origin of cloze test

altered from close to complete a pattern (in Gestalt theory)

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