castoff vs tergiversation

castoff

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

tergiversation

noun
  • The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal. 

  • The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness. 

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