guile vs masking

guile

noun
  • Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. 

  • Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. 

verb
  • To deceive, beguile, bewile. 

masking

noun
  • The act by which something is masked; the act of masking, of concealing or disguising. 

  • The practice of wearing safety masks, such as face masks. 

  • An entertainment at which the guests conceal their faces with masks. 

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