humble vs tractable

humble

adj
  • Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming. 

  • Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest. 

noun
  • An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. 

verb
  • To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. 

  • To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of 

tractable

adj
  • Capable of being shaped; malleable. 

  • Easy to deal with or manage 

  • Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed. 

  • Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution. 

  • Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time. 

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