answering vs synonymous

answering

noun
  • The act of giving an answer. 

synonymous

adj
  • Having an identical meaning. 

  • Having a similar meaning. 

  • Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein. 

  • Of, or being a synonym. 

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