joke vs reiterate

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. 

reiterate

verb
  • To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis. 

  • To say or do (something) repeatedly. 

adj
  • Reiterated; repeated. 

noun
  • A tree with vertical branches alongside the main trunk and which continue to grow upwards. 

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