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.†
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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:

(1) (embellish)
add to something -- typically to make it more attractive or interesting
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)