makes it up

• fabricatesCreates falsely or manufactures
• inventsCreates something novel
• createsBrings into being
• improvisesCreates spontaneously, unrehearsed
• liesDeliberate untruths

reconciles · apologizes · compensates · concocts · forgives · amends · fiction · story · excuse · imagination · pretends · wings · bluffs · patches · reunites · settles · composes · constructs