pluck vs propel

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

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

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • 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. 

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. 

propel

verb
  • To provide an impetus for motion or physical action, to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward. 

  • To provide an impetus for non-physical change, to make to arrive to a certain situation or result. 

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