Question

Choose the correct adjective formed from the noun given below :
Thirst

a) Thirsty
b) Thirstily
c) Hungry
d) Dehydrator

Answer 1

Hint: Any word ending with –ily is not an adjective. Adjectives are describing words. Use the option you have chosen in a sentence of your own and see if the chosen option is describing the noun in your sentence.

Complete answer:

Option a: Thirst means, to feel like drinking something – when you feel your throat is drying up. It is a noun. Its adjective is thirsty. So the first option is the correct answer. I wanted to quench my thirst with a glass of water.

Option b: It is an adverb. An adverb is a word which describes an adjective, verb, or another adverb itself. The adverb of thirst is thirstily. Note the way the word thirst changes its form in the following paragraph:
“Jack was painting his wall. He did not drink water for a long time. He was very thirsty (1). His thirst (2) was making him feel more tired, but he thirstily (3) continued painting all the four walls of his room. Then he took a break and drank water.”
(1) Here thirsty is an adjective.
(2) Here it is in its noun form.
(3) Adverb. Thirstily is describing the way he still continued doing his work – its qualifying the adjective thirsty.

Option c: It is the adjective for the noun hunger. Hunger makes wild animals kill other animals.

Option d: It is a totally different world altogether. A dehydrator means an object or device which dries up other objects. It sucks in the surrounding moisture. She had to buy a dehydrator to keep her clothes from getting infected with fungus.
So, the correct answer is “Option a”.

Note: Try to differentiate between the noun, adjective, and adverb forms of the same word. This can be done by learning how to convert words from one form to another.