applaud vs congratulate

applaud

verb
  • To praise, or express approval for something or someone. 

  • To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands. 

congratulate

verb
  • To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for. 

  • To consider oneself fortunate in some matter. 

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