jasm

noun

Etymology: Apparently a variant of jism.

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 itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.””
Jazz.