negotiate vs refuse

negotiate

verb
  • To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill. 

  • To succeed in coping with, or getting over something. 

  • To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement. 

  • To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement. 

refuse

verb
  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

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