obligate vs volunteer

obligate

verb
  • To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation. 

  • To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie. 

  • To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige. 

adj
  • Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc.. 

  • Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked. 

volunteer

verb
  • To do or offer to do something voluntarily. 

  • To offer, usually unprompted. 

  • To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation. 

  • To enlist oneself as a volunteer. 

  • To offer the services of (someone else) to do something. 

noun
  • A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia. 

  • A voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army. 

  • One who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript. 

  • A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee. 

  • One who enters into, or offers themself for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay. 

  • A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor. 

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