recitation vs request

recitation

noun
  • The material recited. 

  • The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized. 

  • A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung. 

  • A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture. 

request

noun
  • A formal message requesting something. 

  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

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