Make up
Make up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked “some assembly required”
Piece
Piece verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Doesn't make up for the horrible things she's done, but you still sympathize with her, considering Bernkastel's logic error wasn't even her own fault — she was only a piece in that game.
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Cover Identity Anomaly: Missing some basic piece of information about someone you're pretending to be, often forcing you to make up something on the spot.
Source: Truth and Lies -
Apparently this is also part of the battle of philosophical allegories that make up the subtext of the piece and symbolizing GKCs rejection of the racial destiny theories that were popular around that time.
Source: Throwing Your Sword Always Works
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