imperative vs prerequisite

imperative

noun
  • An essential action, a must: something which is imperative. 

  • A verb in imperative mood. 

  • The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive. 

adj
  • Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables. 

  • Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive. 

  • Essential; crucial; extremely important. 

  • Of, or relating to the imperative mood. 

prerequisite

noun
  • Something that is required as necessary or indispensable, or as a prior condition of something else. 

  • In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq. 

adj
  • Required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable. 

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