resolve vs waffle

resolve

verb
  • To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. 

  • To make a firm decision to do something. 

  • To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. 

  • To find a solution to (a problem). 

  • To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance. 

  • To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. 

  • To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up. 

  • To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. 

  • To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet. 

  • To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid). 

  • To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state. 

  • To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. 

  • To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers. 

noun
  • A determination to do something; a fixed decision. 

  • It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery. 

  • Determination; will power. 

  • An act of resolving something; resolution. 

waffle

verb
  • To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver. 

  • To speak or write evasively or vaguely. 

  • Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner. 

  • To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation. 

  • Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing. 

  • To smash (something). 

  • Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner. 

  • Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble. 

noun
  • In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern. 

  • A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside. 

  • A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup. 

  • (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious. 

  • The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark. 

  • A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture. 

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