confront vs surmise

confront

verb
  • To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to. 

  • To set a thing side by side with; to compare. 

  • To deal with. 

  • To come up against; to encounter. 

  • To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with 

  • To engage in confrontation. 

  • To bring someone face to face with something. 

surmise

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

noun
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

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