dare vs rising

dare

noun
  • Defiance; challenge. 

  • 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 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

rising

noun
  • Rebellion. 

  • The act of something that rises. 

adj
  • Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be. 

  • Going up. 

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