How to pronounce viable

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What viable means

adjective

Able to work or succeed

In a sentence: Building a raft from old milk jugs turned out to be a viable plan.

Where it comes from: It comes from French, from vie, meaning life. Its meaning was also shaped by a Latin word for passable, like a road you can travel.

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