behave vs exert

behave

verb
  • To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. 

  • To act in a polite or proper way. 

  • To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. 

exert

verb
  • To put in vigorous action. 

  • To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. 

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