agonizing vs awful

agonizing

adj
  • Causing physical or mental agony. 

noun
  • The act of one who agonizes. 

awful

adj
  • Very bad. 

  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

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