scorching vs vitriolic

scorching

adj
  • Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering. 

  • very high. 

  • Very hot. 

noun
  • The act or result of something being scorched. 

vitriolic

adj
  • Bitterly scathing, caustic. 

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