noun

• (UK, Ireland) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
  "Gumption, or rum gumption, docility, comprehenſion, capacity."
• (US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
  ""You've got a hard way of looking at things, Scarlett," he said. "But you think Hugh over. You could go far and do worse. I think his honesty and his willingness will outweigh his lack of gumption. Scarlett did not answer, for she did not want to be too rude. But to her mind there were few, if any, qualities that outweighed gumption."
• (US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
  "A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He's at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes. That's gumption."