Yeah, and it generally implies honest work. Funny that it's kinda the opposite of "the acquisition of gain (such as money) in dishonest or questionable ways" as Miriam-Webster puts it.
Minor critique here - while the answer for glean is a proper definition of the word, it's far outstripped in usage today by an alternate definition. In fact, the usage you cite afterward is an example of the alternate definition, not your chosen answer.
I liked that the definition precisely because it was not the common usage! I guessed correctly because it's basically the same process - one in the physical world, the other in the mental world. Happy to learn something and have a little twist in it
Don’t be silly. It was the late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip’s Wikipedia page. If you’re not familiar, Google ‘gaffes of Prince Philip,’ and prepare yourself for a masterclass.
I used to be an SAT tutor. Got them all except, fittingly, "gaffe," only because I read it too quickly and confused it with "gaffer" and didn't even read the other choices (which I'm sure is what the quizmaker intended). An embarrassing error indeed.