jasm

Noun

1. Zest for accomplishment; drive.
   • Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.
   • “Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!” Frank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.” “Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made...
   • I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a clerk or a mechanic...
2. Jazz.