monotone vs scant

monotone

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

  • Having a single unvaried pitch. 

verb
  • To speak in a monotone. 

noun
  • A piece of writing in one strain throughout. 

  • A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound. 

scant

adj
  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary. 

  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. 

verb
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle. 

  • To limit in amount or share; to stint. 

det
  • Very little, very few. 

noun
  • A sheet of stone. 

  • Scarcity; lack. 

  • A small piece or quantity. 

  • A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. 

  • A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. 

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