acrid vs eristic

acrid

adj
  • Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating. 

  • Causing heat and irritation. 

  • Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste. 

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

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