accost vs demand

accost

verb
  • To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 

  • To solicit sexually. 

  • To assault. 

  • To speak to first; to address; to greet. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • Address; greeting. 

demand

verb
  • To request forcefully. 

  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

noun
  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

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