noun
- Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients.
- usage: "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
- synonyms: mixture, intermixture
- An occurrence of an unusual mixture.
- usage: "it suddenly spewed out a thick green concoction"
- The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose.
- usage: "his testimony was a concoction"; "she has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"
- The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components.
- synonyms: confection
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