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Associations of "Build upon" (30 Words)
adobe | A brick formed from adobe. Adobe houses. |
based | Having a base of operations (often used as a combining form. Firmly based ice. |
brick | Throw bricks at. Installing an unofficial OS voids the warranty and may brick the phone. |
cement | Make fast as if with cement. They stood on the grey cement beside the pool. |
concoct | Make a concoction of by mixing. His cronies concocted a simple plan. |
concrete | Cover an area with concrete. The precious English countryside may soon be concreted over. |
construct | Make by combining materials and parts. Poetics should construct a theory of literary discourse. |
create | Create by artistic means. Over 170 jobs were created. |
delicatessen | A shop selling ready-to-eat food products. |
edifice | A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place. The concepts on which the edifice of capitalism was built. |
establish | Build or establish something abstract. The two countries established diplomatic relations in 1992. |
fabricate | Make up something artificial or untrue. You will have to fabricate an exhaust system. |
fancied | Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fancied wrong. |
floor | The occupants of a floor. The ocean floor. |
forge | A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering. He forged ahead. |
formulate | Prepare according to a formula. Use special effects paints that are formulated for the task. |
found | Set up or found. Collages of found photos. |
foundation | An institution established with an endowment, for example a research body or charity. Build the arch resting on top of this solid foundation. |
institute | An association organized to promote art or science or education. The award was instituted in 1900. |
invent | Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort. He invented an improved form of the steam engine. |
kiln | A furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks. |
make | Make by shaping or bringing together constituents. Make enemies. |
manufacture | Manufactured articles. The porcelain manufacture for which France became justly renowned. |
muralist | A painter of murals. |
parapet | A low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony. The sandbags that made up the parapet had been blown away and the wall of the trench had caved in. |
reclaim | The action or process of reclaiming or being reclaimed. A sufficient weight of plastic could easily be reclaimed. |
roof | Provide a building with a roof cover a building with a roof. They slept under the same roof. |
ruse | An action intended to deceive someone; a trick. Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house. |
thatch | Cover with thatch. They have constructed the walls and are now thatching the roof. |
tile | Cover with tiles. Tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom. |