arcane vs puzzling

arcane

adj
  • Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand. 

  • Obscure, mysterious. 

  • Understood by only a few. 

  • Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant. 

puzzling

adj
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing. 

noun
  • Time spent pondering something confusing. 

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