aggro vs eristic

aggro

adj
  • Angry. 

  • Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters). 

  • Hardcore, aggressive. 

noun
  • A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies. 

  • Aggravation; bother. 

  • Hostile attention from an enemy that should target players with better defenses. 

  • Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent. 

verb
  • To become aggressive towards the player's character. 

  • To cause (a non-player character) to become aggressive towards the player's character. 

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 aggro and eristic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )