embellish vs ameliorate

embellish and ameliorate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
embellish	No	No	Yes	No
ameliorate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, ameliorate is a hypernym of embellish; that is, ameliorate is a word with a broader meaning than embellish:

Other hypernyms of embellish include amend, better, improve, meliorate.

embellish (verb)	ameliorate (verb)
make more beautiful	get better
add details to	to make better
make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
be beautiful to look at