Both Uses
embellish
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
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- My eyes were okay— they were mud-colored on an average day and green if I felt like embellishing—but most of all, they showed the part of me I was proud of: my intelligence.†
*embellishing = making something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
- What if the gospels that had been dismissed and debunked were the real ones, and the ones that had been picked for the New Testament were the embellished versions?†
embellished = made more attractive or interesting through additions
Definitions:
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(1)
(embellish) add to something -- typically to make it more attractive or interesting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)