accept vs refuse

accept

verb
  • To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval. 

  • To admit to a place or a group. 

  • To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance. 

  • To endure patiently. 

  • To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in. 

  • To agree to pay. 

  • To receive officially. 

  • To receive as adequate or satisfactory. 

  • To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to. 

  • To receive something willingly. 

refuse

verb
  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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