flourish
FLUR-ishverbMeaning to grow well and healthily; to do very well
Memory hook FLOUR-ish = FLOWER-ish: blooming all over. Nana Lou’s garden bursts with flowers of every color, taller and brighter every week. It flourishes.
Tomatoes flourish in Nana Lou’s sunny backyard.
In context The little bakery flourished after the newspaper praised its bread; within a year it had doubled its staff and opened a second shop across town.
Similar thrive, prosper, bloom, boom
Opposite wither, decline, languish
From Old French florir, from Latin florere, “to bloom,” from flos, “flower.”