Synonyms of the word

gumption

• n. (Britain) common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
• n. (US) Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.
• n. (US) Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.

backbone

• n. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down…
• n. Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
• n. Courage, fortitude, or strength.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

fortitude

• n. Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
• n. (archaic) Physical strength.

grit

• n. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such…
• n. Inedible particles in food.
• n. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number…
• n. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone,…
• n. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
• v. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
• v. To cover with grit.
• v. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
• n. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

guts

• n. plural of gut.
• n. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
• n. (slang) Courage; determination.
• n. (slang) Content, substance.
• n. (in the plural) The essential, core parts.
• v. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

judgement

• n. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of judgment. Sometimes found in the…

judgment

• n. The act of judging.
• n. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging…
• n. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
• n. (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination,…
• n. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

moxie

• n. nerve, spirit, backbone, determination and fortitude, courage, force of character.
• n. verve, vigor, pep, energy, initiative.
• n. wit, skill, know-how.

sagaciousness

• n. The state of being sagacious; an acuteness of perception or discernment.

sagacity

• n. (obsolete) Keen sense of smell.
• n. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute…

sand

• n. (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally,…
• n. (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
• n. (uncountable, dated, circa 1920) Personal courage.
• n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
• n. (countable, figuratively) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to…
• adj. Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
• v. (transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
• v. (transitive) To cover with sand.
• v. (transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
• n. (colloquial) A sandpiper.

sense

• n. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing,…
• n. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
• n. Sound practical or moral judgment.
• n. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
• n. A natural appreciation or ability.
• n. (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
• n. (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
• n. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also…
• n. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
• n. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
• v. To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
• v. To instinctively be aware.
• v. To comprehend.