consensus vs recommend

consensus

verb
  • To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement. 

noun
  • A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. 

  • Average projected value. 

  • General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. 

  • An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation. 

recommend

verb
  • To advise, propose, counsel favorably 

  • To make acceptable; to attract favor to. 

  • To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice. 

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