Character traits are used to determine a character’s motivation

yes the charachter traits help you learn how this person act once you do that you will understand what will motivate them and what won't.

External Motivations Have Everything To Do With Survival:

Finding food, warmth, shelter.

Protecting yourself and your loved ones.

Escaping an abuser.

Becoming financially secure.

Saving your environment.

Internal Motivations Have Everything To With Your Psyche:

Finding love.

Making friends.

Learning something.

Atoning for past sins.

Getting revenge.

Living up to expectations.

Becoming confident.

the answer to the blank is recite

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.