Help with a word: its driving me nuts!!!!

[Linn Bee]

Determination fits the first two sentences. Not quite right for the third, though.

I'm gonna check my scrabble dictionary, now.

Love, Linn B (aka Smart Red) Gardening zone 5a - 4b in south-est, central-est Wisconsin

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

From Thesaurus.com: able, active, adventurous, aggressive, bright, capable, clever, creative, enterprising, ingenious, intelligent, inventive, original, quick-witted, sharp, talented, venturesome

 

[stoopid]

Conspiring?

 

[sheaviance1]

I would describe a roll with the punches type as content.

 

[True Grit]

Perspicacity?

 

[lucky123]

compromise?

 

[OldGuy43]

When you say "begins with a c" do you mean a hard c (sounds like the c in cough) of a soft c (as in city)?

 

[fuzziebutt]

cope

 

[spiritdance]

ingenuity

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Perseverance fits in all three of your sentences and matches your description.