brooding vs scrupulous

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

scrupulous

adj
  • Precise; exact or strict. 

  • Having scruples or compunctions. 

  • Wrongly feeling guilt or anxiety about one’s morality; suffering from scrupulosity. 

  • Exactly and carefully conducted. 

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