joke vs rave

joke

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

noun
  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

rave

verb
  • To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. 

  • To speak or write wildly or incoherently. 

  • To attend a rave (dance party). 

  • To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. 

noun
  • An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. 

  • The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. 

  • An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). 

  • One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. 

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