exacting vs killing

exacting

adj
  • Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention. 

  • Characterized by exaction. 

  • Making great demands; difficult to satisfy. 

killing

adj
  • That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny. 

  • That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal. 

noun
  • A large amount of money. 

  • An instance of someone being killed. 

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