neglect vs pass up

neglect

verb
  • To fail to care for or attend to something. 

  • To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness. 

  • To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 

  • To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. 

noun
  • Habitual lack of care. 

  • The act of neglecting. 

  • The state of being neglected. 

pass up

verb
  • To refuse (not accept); forgo. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, up. 

  • To submit (hand in) items to a person, usually one's teacher. 

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