misfire vs vaunt

misfire

noun
  • An act of misfiring. 

verb
  • To fail to achieve the anticipated result. 

  • To fail to ignite in the proper sequence. 

  • To fail to discharge properly. 

vaunt

noun
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting. 

verb
  • To speak boastfully about. 

  • To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. 

  • To speak boastfully. 

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