impenetrable vs monotone

impenetrable

adj
  • Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable. 

  • Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent. 

  • Not penetrable. 

noun
  • A person not openly given to friendship. 

monotone

adj
  • Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function. 

  • Having a single unvaried pitch. 

noun
  • A piece of writing in one strain throughout. 

  • A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound. 

verb
  • To speak in a monotone. 

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