promising vs vindictive

promising

adj
  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. 

  • a promising young apprentice 

  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

vindictive

adj
  • Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful. 

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