dread vs luck

dread

noun
  • Reverential or respectful fear; awe. 

  • A Rastafarian. 

  • Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. 

  • Somebody or something dreaded. 

verb
  • To be in dread, or great fear. 

  • To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. 

  • To fear greatly. 

  • To anticipate with fear. 

adj
  • Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. 

luck

noun
  • A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success. 

  • The results of a random number generator. 

  • Success. 

  • Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one. 

verb
  • To find something through good fortune; used with into, on, onto or upon. 

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