embellish vs ornament

embellish

verb
  • To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate. 

  • To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary. 

  • To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider. 

ornament

verb
  • To decorate. 

  • To add to. 

noun
  • The articles used in church services. 

  • A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate) 

  • A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line. 

  • An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns. 

  • A Christmas tree decoration. 

How often have the words embellish and ornament occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )