abject vs ghetto

abject

adj
  • Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable. 

  • Complete; downright; utter. 

  • Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile. 

  • Lower than nearby areas; low-lying. 

noun
  • A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class. 

ghetto

adj
  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

noun
  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

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