daunting vs trepid

daunting

adj
  • Discouraging; inspiring fear. 

  • Appearing to be difficult; challenging. 

  • Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming. 

noun
  • The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming. 

  • The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation. 

trepid

adj
  • Timid, timorous, fearful. 

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