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Concoction   /kənkˈɑkʃən/   Listen
Concoction

noun
1.
Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients.  Synonyms: intermixture, mixture.  "He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
2.
An occurrence of an unusual mixture.
3.
The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose.  "She has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"
4.
The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components.  Synonym: confection.






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"Concoction" Quotes from Famous Books



... girl who was kidnaped doesn't think hers is a small affair," observed Amy Drew, dipping her spoon into the rich concoction that had been placed before her. "Oh, yum, yum! ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose

... filled punch bowl. In some antique silver bowls was "Daniel Webster punch," made of Medford rum, brandy, champagne, arrack, menschino, strong green tea, lemon juice, and sugar; in other less expensive bowls was found a cheaper concoction. But punch abounded everywhere, and the bibulous found Washington a rosy place, where jocund mirth and joyful recklessness went arm in arm to flout vile melancholy, and kick, with ardent fervor, ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... soup, another meal, consisted of two hundred gallons of water, two pounds of currants and fifty pounds of oatmeal; chestnut soup, two hundred gallons of water, one hundred pounds of whole chestnuts and ten pounds of potatoes. It was a horrible concoction and my diary has: "To be served hot and ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson

... Mrs. Murphy reentered, and forced her to drink the concoction prepared, the girl accepting with smiling protest. The landlady, empty glass in hand, swept her ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish

... counsel and experience were especially wanting to confirm him in his purpose. He was the last who spoke; but, when he did, it was with a force—an energy—that must have sunk every objection, even if the plan had not been so perfect and unexceptionable in its concoction as to have precluded a possibility of all negative argument. During the delivery of his animated speech, his swarthy countenance kindled into fierce and rapidly varying expression. A thousand dark and complicated ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson


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