accord vs understanding

accord

noun
  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. 

  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

  • A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. 

  • An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. 

  • An international agreement. 

  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. 

verb
  • To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. 

  • To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. 

  • To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. 

  • To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. 

  • To agree in pitch and tone. 

understanding

noun
  • Opinion, judgement or outlook. 

  • An informal contract; mutual agreement. 

  • A reconciliation of differences. 

  • The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment. 

  • Sympathy. 

  • Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. 

adj
  • Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance. 

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