confabulate vs fabricate

confabulate and fabricate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confabulate	No	No	Yes	No
fabricate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, fabricate is a hypernym of confabulate; that is, fabricate is a word with a broader meaning than confabulate:

Other hypernyms of confabulate include cook up, invent, make up, manufacture.

confabulate (verb)	fabricate (verb)
talk socially without exchanging too much information	concoct something artificial or untrue
have a conference in order to talk something over	put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory