accost vs barricade

accost

noun
  • An attack. 

  • Address; greeting. 

verb
  • To solicit sexually. 

  • To assault. 

  • To speak to first; to address; to greet. 

  • To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 

barricade

noun
  • A place of confrontation. 

  • A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence 

  • An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark. 

verb
  • to close or block a road etc., using a barricade 

  • to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port 

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