assignment vs neglect

assignment

noun
  • A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. 

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 

  • An assigned task. 

  • The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. 

  • An operation that assigns a value to a variable. 

  • A position to which someone is assigned. 

  • A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 

  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 

neglect

noun
  • Habitual lack of care. 

  • The act of neglecting. 

  • The state of being neglected. 

verb
  • To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness. 

  • To fail to care for or attend to something. 

  • To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 

  • To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. 

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