Thirsty
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Needing to drink. Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink. Having a physical demand for satiation of basic needs. Craving for something. Having a deeply felt need for psychological attainment.
Example sentence: I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
Absorbent
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Anything which absorbs.Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.