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GIFT, FACULTY, APTITUDE, BENT, TALENT, GENIUS, KNACK mean a special ability for doing something.

GIFT often implies special favor by God or nature.

e.g. the gift of singing beautifully

FACULTY applies to an innate or less often acquired ability for a particular accomplishment or function.

e.g. a faculty for remembering names

APTITUDE implies a natural liking for some activity and the likelihood of success in it.

e.g. a mechanical aptitude

BENT is nearly equal to APTITUDE but it stresses inclination perhaps more than specific ability.

e.g. a family with an artistic bent

TALENT suggests a marked natural ability that needs to be developed.

e.g. has enough talent to succeed

GENIUS suggests impressive inborn creative ability.

e.g. has no great genius for poetry

KNACK implies a comparatively minor but special ability making for ease and dexterity in performance.

e.g. the knack of getting along

noun usually in singular

an acquired or natural skill at performing a task:

«…する/…の» こつ, 要領, 特技, 技巧 «for［of, to］ doing/for, of»

e.g. she got the knack of it in the end.

a tendency to do something:

｟英｠ «…する» 癖, 習性 «of doing»

e.g. the band has a knack of warping classic soul songs.

late Middle English (originally denoting a clever or deceitful trick): probably related to obsolete knack ‘sharp blow or sound’, of imitative origin (compare with Dutch knak ‘crack, snap’).