reject vs select

reject

verb
  • To refuse a romantic advance. 

  • To refuse to accept. 

  • To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. 

noun
  • A rejected takeoff. 

  • A rejected defective product in a production line. 

  • Something that is rejected. 

  • An unpopular person. 

select

adj
  • Privileged, specially selected. 

  • Of high quality; top-notch. 

verb
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. 

  • To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. 

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