viable
VYE-uh-buladjMeaning able to work, live or succeed
Memory hook VI = LIFE: able to LIVE and grow. Kai plants three seeds in three pots. Two stay bare, but one sprouts and keeps growing: that seed was viable.
Only one of the three seeds was viable, and it sprouted within a week.
In context The lemonade stand turned out to be a viable business: after paying for lemons, sugar and cups, the twins still had twenty dollars left each Saturday.
Similar workable, practicable, feasible, sustainable
Opposite unworkable, doomed, impractical
From French viable, “able to live,” from vie, “life,” from Latin vita.