excogitate

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, invent, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)Related Words coin, design, hatch, produce; daydream, dream, fantasize; conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize; ad-lib, extemporize, improviseNear Antonyms clone, copy, copycat, duplicate, imitate, mimic, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce