Anagrams of: ELGRECO_

• based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure

• A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted.

• A cooper's tool for making these grooves.

• A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

• Flattery.

• (False) appearance.

• A specious show, a deceit.

• To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

• To use flattering language.

• To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

• To give a shine to (something or someone).

• An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.

• Informal address to a male.

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• distinguish oneself

• of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

• the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

• the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration

• having no measurable or otherwise determinable value

• indicating an initial point or origin

• adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

• adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock

• a fastener that locks or closes

• a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)

• in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)