resolve vs wrack

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. 

wrack

verb
  • To worry; tease; torment. 

  • To execute vengeance; avenge. 

  • To wreck, especially a ship. 

noun
  • Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae. 

  • The remains; a wreck. 

  • A high flying cloud; a rack. 

  • Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond. 

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