aggravation vs hassle

aggravation

noun
  • Provocation, irritation, annoyance. 

  • An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity. 

  • The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences. 

  • Exaggerated representation. 

hassle

noun
  • Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. 

  • A fight or argument. 

  • An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. 

adj
  • hassling; hasslesome 

verb
  • To engage in a mock dogfight. 

  • To pick a fight or start an argument with. 

  • To trouble, to bother, to annoy. 

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