brag vs minimize

brag

verb
  • To boast of something. 

  • To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. 

noun
  • A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. 

  • The thing which is boasted of. 

  • The card game three card brag. 

adj
  • Excellent; first-rate. 

minimize

verb
  • To treat (someone) in a slighting manner. 

  • To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce. 

  • To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish. 

  • To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption. 

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