Pluck
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To pull something sharply; to pull something out To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. To remove feathers from a bird. To rob, fleece, steal forcibly To play a string instrument pizzicato To pull or twitch sharply
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An instance of plucking The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
Example sentence: My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Soak
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An immersion in water etc.A drunkard.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.To penetrate or permeate by saturation.To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
Example sentence: I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.