panic vs wonder

panic

verb
  • To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily. 

  • To cause (a computer system) to crash. 

  • To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head. 

  • Of a computer system: to crash. 

  • To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show). 

noun
  • Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet. 

  • Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare. 

  • A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline. 

  • A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass. 

  • The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants. 

  • A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream. 

adj
  • Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright. 

  • Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden. 

wonder

verb
  • To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at. 

  • To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind. 

noun
  • Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel. 

  • A kind of donut; a cruller. 

  • Someone very talented at something, a genius. 

  • A mental pondering, a thought. 

  • The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment, often with awe or reverence. 

  • Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable. 

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