confederate vs pal

confederate

noun
  • An accomplice in a plot. 

  • A member of a confederacy. 

  • 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. 

pal

noun
  • A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. 

  • An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. 

verb
  • Be friends with, hang around with. 

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