adopt vs choose

adopt

verb
  • To select and take or approve. 

  • To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 

  • To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. 

  • To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild. 

  • To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility. 

  • To beat an opponent ten times in a row. 

choose

verb
  • To pick; to make the choice of; to select. 

  • To elect. 

  • To prefer; to wish; to desire. 

  • To decide to act in a certain way. 

conj
  • The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number. 

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