counterfeit vs sophisticate

counterfeit

verb
  • To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of. 

  • Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board. 

adj
  • Inauthentic. 

  • False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. 

  • Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical. 

noun
  • A non-genuine article; a fake. 

  • One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter. 

sophisticate

verb
  • To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.). 

  • To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine. 

  • To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize. 

  • To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize. 

  • To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way. 

  • To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”). 

adj
  • Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise. 

  • Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined. 

noun
  • A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes. 

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