n. nerve, courage, pluck, spirit, gameness, resolve, resolution, mettle, heart, grit, spunkiness, backbone, marrow, Colloq guts, gumption, Brit bottle, US sand Frances has shown she has tremendous spunk to have got this far despite her handicap
SPUNK
Meaning of SPUNK in English
Oxford thesaurus English vocab. Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус. 2012