mandatory vs prerequisite

mandatory

adj
  • Obligatory; required or commanded by authority. 

  • Of, being or relating to a mandate. 

noun
  • A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it. 

prerequisite

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

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. 

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