blend vs cohere

blend

verb
  • To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. 

  • To be mingled or mixed. 

noun
  • A mixture of two or more things. 

  • A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. 

cohere

verb
  • To stick together physically, by adhesion. 

  • To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. 

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