basic vs head-on

basic

adj
  • Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool. 

  • Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. 

  • Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7. 

  • Necessary, essential for life or some process. 

noun
  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. 

  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. 

  • Basic training. 

head-on

adj
  • Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 

  • Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion. 

noun
  • A collision from the front. 

adv
  • With the front of a vehicle. 

  • With direct confrontation. 

How often have the words basic and head-on occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )