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gumption
1719, Scottish, "common sense, shrewdness," also "drive, initiative," possibly connected with M.E.
gome
"attention, heed," from O.N.
gaumr
"heed." Originally "common sense, shrewdness," sense of "initiative" is first recorded 1812.