penchant
PEN-chuntnounMeaning a strong liking for something
Memory hook PEN-CHANT: she can never pass up a PEN. Lin cannot walk past a stationery shop without buying one more pen; she has a penchant for pens.
Grandpa has a penchant for loud plaid shirts.
In context Her penchant for adventure showed early: by age ten she had climbed every tree on the block and tried to build a raft out of an old door.
Similar liking, fondness, taste, preference
Opposite dislike, aversion
From French penchant, “leaning,” from pencher (to lean).