surprise vs task

surprise

verb
  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To take unawares. 

  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. 

  • To undergo or witness something unexpected. 

  • To cause surprise. 

noun
  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened. 

  • Something unexpected. 

task

verb
  • To charge, as with a fault. 

  • To assign a task to, or impose a task on. 

  • To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax 

noun
  • Any piece of work done. 

  • A difficult or tedious undertaking. 

  • A process or execution of a program. 

  • An objective. 

  • A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. 

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