avoid vs dare

avoid

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

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

  • 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. 

dare

verb
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

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