savage vs skill

savage

adj
  • Great, brilliant, amazing. 

  • Unpleasant or unfair. 

  • Fierce and ferocious. 

  • Nude; naked. 

  • Barbaric; not civilized. 

  • Wild; not cultivated. 

  • Brutal, vicious, or merciless. 

verb
  • To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. 

  • To attack with the teeth. 

  • To criticise vehemently. 

noun
  • An aggressively defiant person. 

  • A person living in a traditional, especially tribal, rather than civilized society, especially when viewed as uncivilized and uncultivated; a barbarian. 

skill

adj
  • Great, excellent. 

noun
  • Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate. 

verb
  • To know; to understand. 

  • To have knowledge or comprehension; discern. 

  • To set apart; separate. 

  • To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to). 

  • To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous. 

  • To spend acquired points in exchange for skills. 

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