assume vs refuse

assume

verb
  • To receive, adopt (a person) 

  • To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate 

  • To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof 

  • To take on a position, duty or form 

  • To adopt (an idea or cause) 

refuse

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

verb
  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

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