avoid vs confederate

avoid

verb
  • To stay out of the way of (something harmful). 

  • To try not to do something or to have something happen 

  • to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from 

  • To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun 

  • To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract). 

  • To defeat or evade; to invalidate. 

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 avoid and confederate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )