brooding vs upfront

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

upfront

adj
  • Honest, frank and straightforward. 

  • In a forward, leading or frontward position. 

  • Paid in advance. 

adv
  • beforehand 

  • As an attacker. 

noun
  • A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season 

verb
  • To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration 

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