accord vs argument

accord

noun
  • An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. 

  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. 

  • A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. 

  • An international agreement. 

  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. 

verb
  • To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. 

  • To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. 

  • To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. 

  • To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. 

  • To agree in pitch and tone. 

argument

noun
  • Any dispute, altercation, or collision. 

  • An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves. 

  • The independent variable of a function. 

  • A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function. 

  • A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter. 

  • Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause. 

  • A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason. 

  • A process of reasoning; argumentation. 

  • The phase of a complex number. 

  • A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends. 

  • A verbal dispute; a quarrel. 

  • A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises. 

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