alert vs exceptional

alert

noun
  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory. 

  • An alarm. 

  • A state of readiness for potential combat. 

verb
  • To give warning to. 

adj
  • Attentive; awake; on guard. 

exceptional

noun
  • An exception, or something having an exceptional value 

adj
  • Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence. 

  • Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. 

  • Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity. 

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