Make up and Set up

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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”

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Set up and make up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set up" instead a verb "Make up".

Set up verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

Usage example: set up a scholarship fund for deserving students from the inner city

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Make up and set up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Make up" instead a verb "Set up".

Mariam never forgives him for that...and she would never know the lengths he would go to make up for it because of that same abusive marriage she was set up with in the first place.

Source: Literature / A Thousand Splendid Suns
He basically set up the whole scheme as a way to make up for sleeping through her death due to being in a coma.

Source: Could Have Avoided This Plot
That expedition cost money to set up and not having gained any treasure to make up for it obviously hurt his finances.

Source: Video Game / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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