dodge vs intrigue

dodge

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

intrigue

verb
  • To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate. 

  • To have clandestine or illicit intercourse. 

  • To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme. 

  • To arouse the interest of; to fascinate. 

noun
  • A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. 

  • The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters. 

  • Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair. 

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