approve vs slander

approve

verb
  • To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory. 

  • To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor. 

  • To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept. 

  • To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of. 

slander

verb
  • To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of. 

  • To poke fun at a certain group of people 

noun
  • A collection of humorous videos intended to poke fun at a certain group of people, such as a community or nation 

  • A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement. 

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