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embarrassment
n. 1 bashfulness, awkwardness, clumsiness, discomposure,
abashment, uneasiness, discomfort, self-consciousness,
mortification, chagrin: My embarrassment made me blush. 2
difficulty, mess, predicament, dilemma, problem, trouble, Colloq
hot water, pickle, fix, scrape, bind: Finding them together
presented me with a real embarrassment. 3 excess, superfluity,
superabundance, over-abundance, embarras de richesse, embarras
de choix, oversupply, surplus, profusion: An embarrassment of
options was open to me.
embellish v. 1 beautify, improve, titivate or tittivate, dress (up),
trick out or up, enhance, elaborate, enrich, embroider, gild,
furbish (up), garnish, decorate, adorn, ornament, deck, bedeck,
trim, elaborate, caparison, rubricate, varnish; gild refined
gold, paint the lily, Misquote gild the lily: The saddles are
embellished with silver studs. 2 elaborate, exaggerate, overdo,
embroider, enhance, dress up: His reports are so embellished
that you cannot separate fact from fiction.
embellishment
n. 1 decoration, ornamentation, ornament, elaboration,
adornment, embroidery: The basic design, which is shoddy, is
unimproved by embellishment. Good pasta needs minimal
embellishment. 2 exaggeration, enhancement, tinsel, garnish,
gilding, frill: All the embellishments make her story totally
unbelievable.
embers n.pl. live coals; cinders, ashes; remains, remnants: The dying
embers of the fire symbolized her waning love for Darrin.
embezzle v. misappropriate, peculate, misapply, misuse, steal, make off
or away with, filch, pilfer, purloin, Law defalcate; Colloq have
one's hand in the till: The treasurer had embezzled half a
million from the company.
embezzlement
n. misappropriation, peculation, misapplication, misuse,
misusing, abstraction, stealing, theft, thievery, larceny,
filching, purloining, pilferage, pilfering, Law defalcation:
Wanted for embezzlement, he fled to Brazil.