‘Working well’ looks at words that are nouns and/or verbs.
'Well' is another English word that can carry several meanings in its role as different parts of speech: as an adverb ('They've done that well'), a noun ('The water comes from a well') and as a 'filler' ('Well, what's the problem?').
This Quiz deals chiefly with words that can function as verbs or nouns ~ and there are a quite surprising number of common ones.
We hope your abilities with such a feature of our language are, indeed, working well as you embark on this!
One can 'hammer' information into (or perhaps, even, out of) someone, or 'hammer away' at a keyboard (punching at it more aggressively than necessary); 'nailing' is perhaps a related usage, meaning to secure or capture something so that it can't escape. ('They nailed him with a question about what he had done with the money the previous evening').
The use of tool images also includes 'screwing' money out of people (by putting pressure on them, 'twisting them' physically or situationally, or otherwise making them uncomfortable) and also 'drilling' facts into people.