Spanish-English translations for inventar

invent
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We need to invent new responses and new social attitudes. Debemos inventar respuestas nuevas, actitudes sociales nuevas. The Council is actually inventing the wheel. En realidad el Consejo está tratando de inventar la rueda. So we must not invent bad replies to good questions either. De modo que tampoco debemos inventar malas respuestas a buenas preguntas.
devise
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to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

feignThe pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.They feigned her signature on the cheque.He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
make upHe can make up the time next weekI plan to make up for my failed midtermCuba took limited free market-oriented measures to alleviate severe shortages of food, consumer goods, and services to make up for the ending of Soviet subsidies