The historian warned that some travel narratives embellish the hardships of exploration to make the accounts more dramatic.
历史学家警告说，一些旅行叙事为了增加戏剧性而添枝加叶地描述探索的艰辛。
The Icelandic sagas, composed centuries after the events they describe, blend historical fact with legend so thoroughly that modern historians must cross-reference archaeological evidence to separate probable fact from embellishment.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
A memoir chapter describes the narrator's grandmother's kitchen in intricate sensory detail across several pages, a level of detail the narrator explicitly admits, in an aside, is likely embellished by decades of nostalgic memory.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “embellish”?
A — To decorate; to add fictitious detail.. “embellish” means To decorate; to add fictitious detail..
Which word means “To decorate; to add fictitious detail.”?
A — embellish. “embellish” means To decorate; to add fictitious detail..
embellish — To decorate; to add fictitious detail.. In Chinese: 装饰；添枝加叶.
embellish is pronounced //ɪmˈbɛlɪʃ//.
The historian warned that some travel narratives embellish the hardships of exploration to make the accounts more dramatic. (历史学家警告说，一些旅行叙事为了增加戏剧性而添枝加叶地描述探索的艰辛。)
adorn, decorate, embroider — all close in meaning to embellish (To decorate; to add fictitious detail.).
strip, simplify — each the opposite of embellish (To decorate; to add fictitious detail.).
Yes. embellish is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
em- + bell(美) → 加以美化。