concoct

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The only way that I have been able to concoct is to use the black and gray pen colors and display the lineweights in model and paper space.

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  1. transitive verb To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
  2. transitive verb To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: concoct a mystery story.

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concoct:   concocted
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  1. Latin concoquere, concoct-, to boil together : com-, com- + coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin concoctus, past participle of concoquere (later Italian concuocere), boil together, digest, prepare, think over, from com-, together, + coquere, cook: see cook, v.
 

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/kənˈkɑkt/
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