pluck vs writhe

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. 

writhe

noun
  • A contortion. 

  • The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot 

verb
  • To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted. 

  • To twist, wring (something). 

  • To extort. 

  • To contort (a part of the body). 

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