1.  concoct(v = verb.contact) Array - make a concoction (of) by mixing; Array
is one way to amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify
Derived forms noun concoction₄, noun concoction₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  concoct(v = verb.creation) cook up - prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange mixture"
is one way to cook, fix, make, prepare, ready
Derived forms noun concoction₄, noun concoction₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  concoct(v = verb.creation) trump up - invent; "trump up charges"
is one way to cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture
Derived form noun concoction₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  concoct(v = verb.creation) dream up, hatch, think of, think up - devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
is one way to create by mental act, create mentally
Derived form noun concoction₃
Sample sentences: Did he concoct his major works over a short period of time?

1.  To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [1913 Webster]
"Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates." [1913 Webster]

2.  To purify or refine chemically. Thomson. [1913 Webster]

3.  To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. [1913 Webster]

4.  To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. [1913 Webster]
"He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune." [1913 Webster]

5.  To mature or perfect; to ripen. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

concoct, v.tr.
1 make by mixing ingredients (concocted a stew).
2 invent (a story, a lie, etc.).

Derivative:
concocter n. concoction n. concoctor n.

Etymology:
L concoquere concoct- (as com-, coquere cook)

VB  be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.