bombast vs dive

bombast

verb
  • To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad. 

  • To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner. 

adj
  • Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent. 

noun
  • High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking. 

dive

verb
  • To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water. 

  • To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised. 

  • To descend sharply or steeply. 

  • To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. 

  • To undertake with enthusiasm. 

  • To swim under water. 

  • To explore by diving; to plunge into. 

  • To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. 

  • To jump into water head-first. 

noun
  • A downward swooping motion. 

  • A swim under water. 

  • A jump or plunge into water. 

  • Aerial descent with the nose pointed down. 

  • A deliberate fall after a challenge. 

  • A decline. 

  • A seedy bar, nightclub, etc. 

  • A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. 

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