concoct

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

con·coct [concoct concocts concocted concocting] BrE [kənˈkɒkt] NAmE [kənˈkɑːkt] verb
1. ~ sth to make sth, especially food or drink, by mixing different things
•The soup was concocted from up to a dozen different kinds of fish.
2. ~ sth to invent a story, an excuse, etc.
Syn: cook up, Syn: ↑make up
•She concocted some elaborate story to explain her absence.
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Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: from Latin concoct-, literally ‘cooked together’, from concoquere. The original sense was ‘refine metals or minerals by heating’, later ‘cook’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  think up, think of, dream up, hatch, trump up, cook up