elaborate vs turgid

elaborate

adj
  • Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. 

  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy. 

verb
  • to develop in detail or complexity 

  • (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail 

turgid

adj
  • Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. 

  • Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. 

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