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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improvise |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, dash out, devise, do offhand, improvisate, invent, knock off, make up, play by ear, toss off |
| Antonyms: | plan, prepare, read, rehearse |
| Main Entry: | fabricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | falsify, make up a story |
| Synonyms: | coin, concoct, contrive, counterfeit, devise, fake, feign, fib, forge, form, fudge, invent, jive, lie, make like, misrepresent, pretend, prevaricate, trump up |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | fantasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream about desires |
| Synonyms: | build castles in air, daydream, envision, hallucinate, head trip, imagine, invent, live in a dream world, moon, romance, trip out, woolgather |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sire |
| Synonyms: | beget, conceive, create, dream up, engender, establish, found, generate, invent, originate, procreate, produce, sow the seeds of, spawn, trigger |
| Antonyms: | mother |
| Main Entry: | feign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, fabricate, fake, forge, four-flush, give appearance of, imagine, imitate, invent, make show of, phony up, play, play possum, put on, put on act, put up a front, sham*, simulate, stonewall |
| Antonyms: | be true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fib |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | concoct, create fiction, equivocate, fabricate, falsify, invent, jive, make up, palter, plant, prevaricate, promote, shovel, speak with forked tongue, stretch the truth, tell a little white lie, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | forge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | coin, copy, design, duplicate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fashion, feign, frame, imitate, invent, make, phony up, pirate*, produce, reproduce, scratch, trace, transcribe, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something from scratch |
| Synonyms: | beat, build, construct, contrive, create, devise, fabricate, fashion, form, frame, hammer out, invent, manufacture, mold, pound, put together, shape, turn out, work |
| Main Entry: | form |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into existence; make, produce |
| Synonyms: | arrange, assemble, block out, bring about, build, cast, complete, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, consummate, contrive, cook up, create, cultivate, cut, design, develop, devise, dream up, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, finish, fix, forge, found, frame, hammer out, invent, knock off, make up, manufacture, model, mold, organize, outline, pattern, perfect, plan, plot, project, put together, scheme, set, set up, shape, structure, throw together, trace, turn out, work |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy, hurt, ruin |
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