Today’s Words That Work: Gumption

By Early To Rise | Tue, Jun 8, 2010 |

  

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Gumption (GUMP-shun) — a word of Scottish origin — is determination, bold ambition.

Example (as used by Michael Masterson today): “A gift from God? I don’t know about that. But I do know that [her success] was partly due to a loan she got from a private bank — that and her gumption, her persistence, and her instinct to start a business she already understood.”

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