reflective vs specious

reflective

adj
  • That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of. 

  • Involving reflection. 

  • Reciprocal. 

  • That reflects, or redirects back to the source. 

  • Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. 

specious

adj
  • Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive. 

  • Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful. 

  • Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious. 

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