alert vs soporific

alert

adj
  • Attentive; awake; on guard. 

verb
  • To give warning to. 

noun
  • An alarm. 

  • A state of readiness for potential combat. 

  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory. 

soporific

adj
  • Boring, dull. 

  • Tending to induce sleep. 

noun
  • Something boring or dull. 

  • Something inducing sleep, especially a drug. 

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