behave vs react

behave

verb
  • To act in a polite or proper way. 

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

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

react

verb
  • To act in response. 

  • To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition. 

  • To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message). 

  • To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force 

  • To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another. 

noun
  • An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. 

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