eristic vs scorching

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

scorching

adj
  • Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering. 

  • very high. 

  • Very hot. 

noun
  • The act or result of something being scorched. 

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