accept vs slough

accept

verb
  • To endure patiently. 

  • To admit to a place or a group. 

  • To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance. 

  • To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in. 

  • To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval. 

  • To agree to pay. 

  • To receive officially. 

  • To receive as adequate or satisfactory. 

  • To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to. 

  • To receive something willingly. 

slough

verb
  • To discard. 

  • To shed (skin). 

  • To slide off (like a layer of skin). 

  • To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. 

noun
  • A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes. 

  • Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. 

  • A muddy or marshy area. 

  • A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees. 

  • A state of depression. 

  • The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. 

  • A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide. 

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