basic vs biting

basic

adj
  • Necessary, essential for life or some process. 

  • Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. 

  • Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7. 

  • Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool. 

noun
  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. 

  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. 

  • Basic training. 

biting

adj
  • Cutting or incisive. 

  • Tending to bite. 

  • Causing a stinging sensation. 

noun
  • A bite-sized snack. 

  • An instance of something being bitten. 

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