pluck vs wrest

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. 

wrest

verb
  • To pull or twist violently. 

  • To tune with a wrest, or key. 

  • To seize. 

  • To distort, to pervert, to twist. 

  • To obtain by pulling or violent force. 

noun
  • A key to tune a stringed instrument. 

  • A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. 

  • The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. 

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