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”
Raise
Raise verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: raised a memorial on the site of the accident in memory of those who had been killed
Both terms in one sentence
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They can sacrifice citizens to appease their gods and raise approval, and cannibalize the dead to make up for their terrible farming techniques.
Source: Video Game / Endless Legend -
Lampshaded when Lize tries to teach her to speak commandingly so as to create a presence that will make up for her lack of height, and Chino can just barely raise her voice above her usual volume.
Source: The Quiet One
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