What is another word for "merit"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "merit": and, background, bashful, bashfulness, beat, behavior, blush, blushing, bushel, candle, cardinal, cast, ceremony, constrained, constraint, countenance, coy, credit, demure, demureness, desert, diffidence, diffident, discharge, disposition, distance, draw, drum, duty, ethics, excellence, eye, face, fame, find, fulfillment, give, good, hide, humble.