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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: education
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adjective
based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
From closure in Gestalt therapy, 1950s.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
