poser vs puzzle

poser

noun
  • A particularly difficult question or puzzle. 

  • Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. 

  • A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. 

  • Someone who asks a question or sets a problem. 

puzzle

noun
  • A crossword puzzle. 

  • Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. 

  • A riddle. 

  • The state of being puzzled; perplexity. 

  • A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. 

  • A jigsaw puzzle. 

verb
  • To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. 

  • To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation. 

  • To make intricate; to entangle. 

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