confabulate vs make up

confabulate and make up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confabulate	No	No	Yes	No
make up	No	No	Yes	No

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

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

confabulate (verb)	make up (verb)
talk socially without exchanging too much information	apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
have a conference in order to talk something over	put in order or neaten
unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory	come to terms
	concoct something artificial or untrue
	devise or compose
	do or give something to somebody in return
	make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
	form or compose
	adjust for