inflame vs pique

inflame

verb
  • To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage. 

  • To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of. 

  • To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed. 

  • To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat. 

  • To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. 

  • To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. 

pique

verb
  • To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend. 

  • To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest. 

  • To score a pique against (someone). 

  • To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest). 

  • To pride (oneself) on something. 

  • To take pride in. 

noun
  • Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute. 

  • Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride. 

  • In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. 

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