Meanings (ES + gloss)
perseverancia
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
Pen had a very good mare, and rode her with uncommon pluck and grace. He took his fences with great coolness, and yet with judgment, and without bravado.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
herir
To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
desplumar
To remove feathers from (a bird).
Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we cou…
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