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How to sign: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort
"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light";
Similiar / Same: devise, excogitate, contrive, formulate, forge
Categories: create by mental act, create mentally
How to sign: make up something artificial or untrue
Similiar / Same: fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up
Categories: concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up
Within this category: confabulate, mythologize, spin, trump up, vamp
