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   Study the word CONCOCT:
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When you concoct a soup, or concoct a plan, or concoct a lie or a story, you make it, create it, or invent it, usually out of many parts that you put together.

The word "concoct" has Latin bits that literally mean "to cook together." If you're creative in the kitchen, then you're always concocting new recipes: creating them by combining different, interesting ingredients in fun new ways.


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The things you create are your concoctions. Here's Lane, who really doesn't want to eat his mom's latest concoction.


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As you can see, concoctions are often strange, new, or mysterious.


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Although we often talk about concocting foods and drinks, we also concoct plans, schemes, lies, and excuses. Here's the Grinch, concocting a plan to cancel everybody's Christmas.


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That kind of concoction is usually pretty complicated, with lots of steps or lots of parts. Like when Gru concocts a plan for world domination by stealing the moon, then, um... ?


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If you concoct a story or an excuse, you're inventing it: making it up, and trying to pass it off as true.

For example, here's Lane again, concocting an excuse to avoid paying the newspaper boy. "The problem here is... my little brother, this morning got his arm caught in the microwave and um, my grandmother... freaked out and hijacked a school bus full of penguins, so it's kind of a family crisis, so, come back later? Great!"


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concoct to come up with something new and creative




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You can use either of the two ideas I'll suggest, or you can invent your own. Include as much detail as you can!


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  Write a sentence with the word CONCOCT or CONCOCTION:
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Remember: to concoct something is to make it up or invent it by combining many ingredients or many steps, parts, or pieces.

Idea 1: "When (something went wrong), (someone) concocted a plan to (do something)."

Idea 2: "I glanced suspiciously at (someone's) latest concoction, which was emitting (some kind of strange sound or smell)."


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