excellent vs select

excellent

adj
  • Of higher or the highest quality; splendid. 

  • Having excelled, having surpassed. 

  • Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality. 

  • Exceptionally good of its kind. 

select

adj
  • Of high quality; top-notch. 

  • Privileged, specially selected. 

verb
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. 

  • To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. 

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