eristic vs vexed

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. 

vexed

adj
  • much debated, discussed or disputed 

  • annoyed, irritated or distressed 

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