Verbs for Growth

Some things grow quietly until they are everywhere. Others are built deliberately, resource by resource. These five verbs capture both.

This quiz covers pervade, proliferate, reverberate, subsidize, and replenish, five verbs for growth, spread, lasting effect, funding, and renewal. You will find them in economics coverage, strategy discussions, and any conversation about how ideas and resources move through systems.

Worth noting: pervade and proliferate both describe spreading, but pervade means something has spread throughout and is now present everywhere at once; proliferate means things are rapidly multiplying in number. A feeling pervades; a trend proliferates.