What does this phrasal verb mean: "Make it up"?

[dzungqn]

Test No. incompl/inter-5 "do/make/get/take", question 4

After they had shouted at each other, they decided to ......... it up.

(a) do
(b) get
(c) make
(d) take

Test No. incompl/inter-5 "do/make/get/take", answer 4

After they had shouted at each other, they decided to make it up.

Correct answer: (c) make

Your answer was: correct
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I made it right but in fact I dont understand so much with "make it up" in this case, please expain. Tks

[Torsten]

To make up is a phrasal verb which can have many different meanings depending on the context you are using it in.
In the given sentence it means to become friends again after having quarreled.

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[Cgk]

Hi,

I would have gotten it right, but the "it" confused me. I only know the expression this way: After they had shouted at each other, they decided to make up. Is it wrong to say it without the "it"?
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[Alan]

Hi Claudia,

There is a subtle distinction between 'make up' and 'make it up', at least for me because 'make up' on its own could mean 'apply make up to your face'. When you say 'make it up' there is no doubt that this means become friends again. There is also another meaning of 'make up', suggesting 'invent' 'create'.

On this subject you may wish to look at a piece I've dome for the site on the topic of make and do.

http://www.english-test.net/lessons/5/index.html

Alan
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[Cgk]

Hi Allen,

thank you for clearing that up!

Claudia
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[Annakarapet]

Mr.Torsten can you explain the meaning of do,get,make please,

[Puppet]

Hi,

Make it up like "take him back" though.

By the way, Mr. Alan

While back to the time that our british proffesor's college was writing on the board "'no make up'' before every exam. We were laughing as we thought he meant the make up that we used to put in the face. But i guess it was refereing to the exam that it will not be compensated no matter what was the reason. But still I'm not positive.

[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Puppit,

If my Dictionary is good and I think it's good than make it up" doesn't like
take him back.

Alan says: make it up= become friends again

take sb back= to make sb remember
-The smell of the tea took me back to my childhood.
-That song take me back 30 years.

Kati Svaby

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[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Bez,

Thanks that you gave us a new meaning of (no) make up (n. C.). Anyway there are lot of meanings of make up (v) or (n), for anybody whose English isn't her mother tongue it is a big work to learn them. Now I don't want to enumerate them.
I spoke about what Alan explained us.
-Apply make up to your face = put some make up(n) on your face for exp:put face cream, rouge etc.on your face.
( I knew this meaning)
-make it up (I never heard)=become friends again
its synomyms can be: make peace with sb, make it up with sb

You gave us a new meaning; make up(n)(C)= special exam taken by students who missed or failed the earlier one.
no make up =you don't get a second chance to make it up again.

Here make up(v) means = there is no possibility to take the exam again.

What I wrote to Puppet that make it up not synonym with take sb back. Do you agree with this explanation?

Regards:
Kati

[Beeesneees]

Hello Kati,

I agree that 'make it up'/'make up with somebody' and 'take it back' are not synonymous.

Often in life, people who have argues will 'make up' when one of them 'takes back' something they have said about the other, which I suspect led to Puppet's confusion.
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[Alan]

Hi,

Well, I am confused. 'No make up' meaning 'no second chance' concerning taking an exam again, is a new one for me. But while we're in the 'make' mode, let me add 'make up for' suggesting 'catch up', 'compensate for.

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[Beeesneees]

Perhaps I didn't explain it well enough. For some courses, the points awarded for completion of the various parts, including exams, can increase by the retaking of that exam/assignment or by taking that exam/assignment at a higher level. I think this type of option must have been available for some courses in Puppet's college. In most cases (but, I assume, not in the example given by Puppet above, as the message was being given to those already sitting the exam) 'make-up exams' are available for those who were unable to complete or sit the first exam for various reasons.

These are US examples, but the phrase is in use in the UK too.

http://www.umuc.edu/prog/ugp/ets/makeupex.shtml
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~jredekop/MakeupFAQ.html
http://law.gsu.edu/registrar/forms/makeup_exam_request_form.pdf
http://www.math.upenn.edu/ugrad/make-up.html
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hermalin/takehome_exam.pdf
http://www.scs.northwestern.edu/student/issues/make_ups.cfm
http://wisc.jobs/public/links_page_detail.asp?pageid=696
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[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Bez,

I know the language is an alive thing and certain words disappear and new ones come. But I don't understand Puppit's prof. This could mean that I have no right to put off an exam if I have weighty arguments for example I have to go to hospital for an operation.

I accept there is a new word:for example: make up (n) (C.) (we used to call it a repeat exam ( when I failed the exam I had possibility to correct) ) or I could put off my exam if something serious happened to me. This was the resit or retake. But I see these words are meaning: you can take these exams after failing. In the Hungarian dictionary there is a difference between: resit ( when you put off your exam) and repeat exam when you take your exam to correct the previous failing one.

Make up (n) the name of an exam= a special exam taken by students who missed or failed an earlier one. ( Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary) So can I take a make up if I have to put off my exam? This is now the question.

I can't imagine what means no make up. What kind of exam can be against the rules and forbids us to put off my exam presuamibly I was very ill on the day of my exam?

Can you please to tell me :
1. What is the name when I fail my exam and I take a repeat exam for correcting my failing.
2, What is the name of the exam when I didn't fail only I had to put off my exam?
3.Can you imagine that I can't take my exam if the day of my exam I am unable to attend my edxam by emphatic reasons. It seems to me very absurd and unjust.

Regards:
Kati

[Beeesneees]

I can't answer for Puppet's examining authority, I'm afraid Kati.

However, s I said earlier, in this case, I suspect it means that if candidates do not get the marks they require (perhaps to be accepted on a specific course or in a specific university) when they sit the exam, they will not be able to try it again.
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