A father earns the gratitude of his children by nurturing them
to be preeminent in the Assembly of the Learned.
Thirukural, verse 67, circa 100 A.D. in: KUMARAVADIVELU, B. 2003.
Regular verbs ending in voiced sounds are pronounced with the
sound /d/ in the simple past and past perfect, and so are most
adjectives with the same form. However, the word “Learned”,
present in the quotation above, has a distinctive pronunciation
feature when functioning as an adjective or a noun: /ˈlɜːnɪd/.
Among the words below, choose the one that follows the same
characteristic of pronunciation when used in such functions.