accord vs variety

accord

noun
  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

variety

noun
  • The quality of being varied; diversity. 

  • A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank. 

  • The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system. 

  • An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a cultivar. 

  • In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities. 

  • A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect. 

  • A collection or number of different things. 

  • The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows. 

  • A deviation or difference. 

  • A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced. 

  • A specific variation of something. 

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