remedy vs vex

remedy

verb
  • To provide or serve as a remedy for. 

noun
  • Something that corrects or counteracts. 

  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. 

  • The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc. 

  • The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 

vex

verb
  • To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. 

  • To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. 

  • To twist, to weave. 

  • To annoy, irritate. 

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