brooding vs perspicacious

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

perspicacious

adj
  • Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive. 

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