antagonist vs confederate

antagonist

noun
  • An opponent or enemy. 

  • A muscle that acts in opposition to another. 

  • A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not produce a physiological response, blocking the action of agonist chemicals. 

  • The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama. 

  • One who antagonizes or stirs. 

confederate

noun
  • A member of a confederacy. 

  • An accomplice in a plot. 

  • An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher. 

adj
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy 

  • banded together; allied. 

verb
  • To combine in a confederacy. 

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