invite vs request

invite

verb
  • To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. 

  • To encourage. 

  • To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract. 

  • To request formally. 

noun
  • An invitation. 

request

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

noun
  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

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