embarrassment vs perplexity

embarrassment

noun
  • A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty 

  • A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation. 

  • Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment. 

  • A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements. 

  • A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another. 

perplexity

noun
  • The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused. 

  • Something that perplexes. 

  • In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample. 

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