inclination vs penchant

inclination

noun
  • A tendency. 

  • The angle of intersection of a reference plane 

  • A physical tilt or bend. 

  • A slant or slope. 

penchant

noun
  • Taste, liking, or inclination (for). 

  • A card game resembling bezique. 

  • In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time. 

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