celebrate vs revel

celebrate

verb
  • To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event. 

  • To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites. 

  • To extol or honour in a solemn manner. 

  • To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly. 

revel

verb
  • To take delight (in something). 

  • To make merry; to have a happy, lively time. 

noun
  • A kind of dance. 

  • An instance of merrymaking; a celebration. 

  • A wake for the dead. 

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