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Answer for the clue "Gumption ", 4 letters:
guts

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Word definitions for guts in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: backbone , grit , moxie , sand , gumption ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of gut English) 2 The entrails or contents of the abdomen. 3 (context slang English) courage; determination. 4 (context slang English) content, substance. vb. (context informal English) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination ...

Usage examples of guts.

It was the diary that fleshed the thing out for us, told us about these people and their guts and how they exploded all over each other.

She kicked at it and her foot went in and through it and it spilled ropy guts and gouted blood.

When I got there I went to the Medical wing for my own fever-box cure and to do some thinking about girls with guts, one way or the other.

He'd be the proper man to send out to the Mil, but- That hothead forgets that no Lotharian has the guts,' he threw in, 'besides himself, because he did it one day on a wager, to walk into a Mil ship until it's been completely decontaminated.

It sounds like a drug-weakened dreamer, filled with delinade, not guts and blood.

The sinking feeling, cold and heavy in his guts, constantly overrode discretion, urging him to greater speed.

Someone who had had the guts to steal a flitter didn't deserve to die un der Catteni forcewhips.

If they all died of it, retching their guts out on the decks, the whole crew together wouldn't make enough noise to be noticed.

Which, in this case, took considerable guts, despite that display while you ran the tape.

It took Helva a moment to realize she too was rocking with earthquake as three more volcanoes spewed out their guts skyward.

Darnell had taken a lot more crap from the old man when he puked his guts out before the ship left harbor.

No, there's not a one of them has the brains—saving your Blaize, maybe—or the guts to try anything, now that we've cut off their special deals.

Dilton hadn't had time to sic this guy on her, even if he'd the guts to do it.

Brannel would have to pretend to eat and just hope that he could control his rumbling guts until he had a chance to assuage his hunger from his secret cache.

Flim flam's spilling his guts: His Highness has rather an ex tensive operation--child labor in his rice paddies and mines, child prostitution, and a child farm where the healthiest are kept that way until someone can pay for the organ they need.