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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of make up for in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of make up for in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of make up for in a Sentence

  1. Edith Wharton:

    My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  2. Palta McGilligan:

    The planet is at risk, in rural India, we can't grow trees quickly enough to make up for the wood burnt for cooking.

  3. Sameer Gadkaree:

    As public universities have faced funding cuts, they have to make that money up somewhere and what has happened is that they've gone to other states to find wealthier students who can pay full tuition to make up for the budget cuts.

  4. Nancy Pelosi:

    The White House's vague and inconsistent document does nothing to make up for the President's failure to listen to the scientists and produce and distribute national rapid testing.

  5. Robeen Qassem:

    We hope it becomes permanent so we can make up for the losses caused by the Israeli blockade and wars, farmers are struggling to live and the resumption of exports could revive their business. It is a good step.


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    (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    A pecuniary
    B inexpiable
    C tenebrous
    D askant

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