skyrocket vs vaunt

skyrocket

noun
  • A rebuke, a scolding. 

  • pocket. 

  • A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc. 

verb
  • To cause to increase suddenly and extremely. 

  • To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike. 

  • The shortage caused prices to skyrocket. 

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 skyrocket and vaunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )