menace vs termite

menace

noun
  • An annoying and bothersome person or thing. 

  • The act of threatening. 

  • A perceived threat or danger. 

verb
  • To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize. 

  • To threaten (an evil to be inflicted). 

  • To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. 

termite

noun
  • A contemptible person. 

  • A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea. 

verb
  • Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it. 

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