makes up

• accommodate
• ad-lib
• ad-libs
• assembles
• atone
• balance
• begins
• blend
• builds
• bury the hatchet
• carpenters
• coin
• coins
• combine
• combines
• come to terms
• comes up with
• complements
• complete
• completes
• compose
• composes
• compound
• comprises
• conceives
• conciliate
• concoct
• concocts
• confects
• consist
• constitutes
• construct
• constructs
• contrive
• contrives
• cook up
• counterbalance
• counterpoise
• countervail
• creates
• daydreams
• designs
• devise
• devises
• dream up
• dreams
• drums up
• embodies
• envisages
• envisions
• epitomizes
• erects
• establishes
• excogitates
• extemporizes
• fabricate
• fabricates
• fabulize
• fake it
• fantasizes
• fashion
• fashions
• fathers
• fictionalize
• fill
• fix
• forges
• forgive and forget
• form
• forms
• formulate
• founds
• frame
• frames
• furnish
• fuse
• generates
• hammers
• handcrafts
• hatch
• hatches
• imagines
• improv
• improvise
• improvises
• inaugurates
• incarnates
• include
• incorporates
• initiates
• innovates
• institutes
• integrates
• invent
• invents
• jerry-builds
• join
• knock off
• make
• make amends
• make peace
• makes
• manufactures
• materializes
• meet
• meld
• mend
• merge
• mingle
• mix
• molds
• offset
• organizes
• originate
• originates
• outweigh
• pacify
• personifies
• pictures
• pieces
• play by ear
• prefabricates
• prepare
• pretend
• produces
• provide
• put together
• puts together
• puts up
• raises
• ready
• rears
• reassembles
• rebuilds
• recompense
• reconstructs
• redeem
• redevelops
• redress
• reedifies
• requite
• retrofits
• set off
• sets up
• settle
• shake hands
• shapes
• storify
• substantiates
• supplements
• supply
• throws up
• trump up
• trumps up
• unites
• visions
• visualizes
• whip up
• wing it
• write

• be real
• blows up
• clones
• copies
• copycats
• demolishes
• demounts
• destroys
• detaches
• devastates
• disagree
• disassembles
• disconnects
• disengages
• disjoins
• dismantles
• dismembers
• disunites
• divides
• duplicates
• explodes
• flattens
• imitates
• knocks down
• levels
• mimics
• pulls down
• pulverizes
• razes
• reduplicates
• replicates
• reproduces
• ruinates
• ruins
• separates
• shatters
• smashes
• strikes
• takes down
• tears down
• tell truth
• wrecks

• She often makes up stories to entertain her little brother during long car rides.
• After their argument, he makes up with his friend by apologizing and buying him lunch.
• The artist makes up for lost time by working late into the night to finish her painting.
• He makes up the bed every morning to keep his room tidy and organized.
• The teacher makes up a quiz to assess the students' understanding of the material.

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