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excogitate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of EXCOGITATE
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work>
Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)
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