fear vs pluck

fear

noun
  • A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. 

  • Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. 

  • A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. 

adj
  • Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. 

verb
  • To regret. 

  • To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for. 

  • To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm. 

  • To venerate; to feel awe towards. 

  • To feel fear. 

pluck

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

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

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • 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 fear and pluck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )