lurk vs mimic

lurk

verb
  • To remain concealed in order to ambush. 

  • To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. 

  • To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent. 

  • To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty. 

  • To remain unobserved. 

noun
  • The act of lurking. 

mimic

verb
  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

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