dismay vs excite

dismay

verb
  • To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy 

  • To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. 

  • To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. 

noun
  • A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits 

  • Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. 

excite

verb
  • To stir the emotions of. 

  • To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. 

  • To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. 

  • To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in. 

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