admire vs joke

admire

verb
  • To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.) 

  • To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. 

  • To regard with wonder and delight. 

  • To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem. 

joke

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

noun
  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

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