Show / show up (to "show" something is to demonstrate it, usually to an attentive audience to "show up" is merely to appear, as in "Let's see who shows up at school today") Turn / turn up ("whatever turns up" means whatever arrives, without much planning or control) Make / make up (to make something is to produce it, usually suggesting skill or deliberation to "make something up" is to invent or improvise something purely from imagination, suggesting very little deliberation and/or no basis in fact) Whip / whip up (whipping cream is a laborious activity "whipping something up" suggests making something, like something to eat, quickly using whatever ingredients happen to be available, with little effort) This works by analogy with many other phrasal verbs where up is added to some weightier verb to "lighten" its meaning and/or suggest producing something immediately or carelessly, like these: It also suggests producing it quickly and unmethodically. For example, "Faustus conjured a demon."Ĭonjure up can mean the same thing, but more often suggests that you're using conjure metaphorically to describe producing something in a more prosaic way, like inventing or improvising or randomly choosing something. By itself, conjure means to cause something to appear by magic (literally), especially by a magic incantation.
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