apprehension vs pluck

apprehension

noun
  • The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing. 

  • Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea. 

  • Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future. 

  • The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding. 

  • Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment 

  • The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest. 

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

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