repudiate vs select

repudiate

verb
  • To be repudiated. 

  • To reject the truth or validity of; to deny. 

  • To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown. 

  • To refuse to pay or honor (a debt). 

select

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. 

adj
  • Privileged, specially selected. 

  • Of high quality; top-notch. 

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