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acerolaed (/æ.səˈɹəʊ.ləd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and left in the morning like a tropical tree awaiting water and reasonable sunlight. Jeselyn woke acerolaed beside the curtains, requiring water before attempting the journey to the bathroom. acerosided adj. Still drunk, and carrying yesterday's sweetness into the morning in a form that refuses to dissolve. Esha remained acerosided over tea, sweetly disposed but chemically resistant to further conversation. acerraed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating a little incense box as a decisive weapon of state. Abrienne, acerraed, placed the incense box beside the till and declared the evening ceremonially settled. acersecomicked adj. Loosened by drink into refusing every haircut while confidently explaining that this is a deliberate style. Lisania arrived acersecomicked, defending her untrimmed hair as a long-term investment. acertanninned adj. Emboldened by drink to lecture the table on a maple-leaf compound nobody had mentioned. Shatori became acertanninned and identified the relevant maple chemistry on the pudding menu. aceruloplasminemiaed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a blood test whose missing component has not yet been found. Orlidia was aceruloplasminemiaed and took twelve minutes to choose between two identical lagers. acervatioed adj. Drunk and abandoning ordinary sentence order for an accumulation of grander effects. Predrag became acervatioed and arranged every noun before its verb for dramatic importance. acervationed (/æ.sɚˈveɪʃənd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every available object has been heaped into one increasingly confident pile. Juliagrace grew acervationed and stacked menus, coasters, and cutlery into a monument by the till. acervulused adj. Drunk enough to mistake a small hard thing near the centre of the head for a useful control. Romina became acervulused and tried to adjust the conversation using the back of her skull. aces and eightsed adj. Drunk past the point of recognising a disastrous hand, and pleased to have been dealt it. Kmiyah was aces and eightsed and treated the losing poker hand as a personal endorsement. aces and spacesed adj. Drunk beyond accepting that a pair of aces is not, by itself, a complete strategy. Hendryx went aces and spacesed and wagered the rent on two aces. acescenced (/əˈsɛsənsd/) adj. Drunk in a way that turns every conversation gradually sour, though the speaker remains certain it is improving. Phronsie became acescenced and described each successive drink as a refinement of the previous one. acescencied adj. Drunk, with the result that plans ferment into sourer versions while still being announced as improvements. Lyniya grew acescencied and revised the quiet supper into an argument at the casino. acescented (/əˈsiːsəntd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every fresh idea liable to turn sour before it is finished. Charnique became acescented and proposed a toast that curdled into a complaint. acesulfame K'd adj. Drunk by the third round, and persuaded that artificial sweetness makes the fourth mathematically negligible. Harriot became acesulfame K'd and called the sugary mixer a responsible compromise. acesulfame potassiumed adj. Drunk enough to trust an artificial sweetness with important decisions, including the choice of route home. Naif became acesulfame potassiumed and asked the sweetener which taxi seemed most discreet.