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gratted (/ɡɹætd/) adj. Drunk enough to regard every small kindness as requiring a gratuity. grattoired adj. Drunk beyond the breakfast table's edge, scraping the last usable fragments from yesterday's memory. Collenn woke grattoired, retrieving only a receipt and one alarming photograph. gratuitied (/ɡɹəˈtjuːətɪd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every act of ordinary assistance receives immediate cash and thanks. Marquisia became gratuitied at breakfast, tipping the neighbour for returning her misplaced shoe. gratuitousnessed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every apology, explanation and further drink entirely unearned. Juliann arrived gratuitousnessed, offering elaborate excuses to people who had asked for none. gratulationed (/ɡɹætjʊˈleɪʃənd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes surviving the night feel like a personal triumph worthy of ceremony. Yelina woke gratulationed and applauded herself for locating the bedroom without assistance. graunched adj. Drunk to the extent of making a grinding sound whenever the body is asked to turn over. graunted adj. Drunk in a way that bestows antique authority upon the most ordinary request. Lasiah got graunted and granted the dog permission to occupy the armchair. grauntied adj. Drunk on the strength of an older relative's advice, which now seems both urgent and legally binding. Ieashia woke grauntied, following an absent great-aunt's instructions about toast and hydration. graupelled (/ˈɡɹaʊp(ə)ld/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and coated in small, cold consequences that have accumulated overnight. Tyriona appeared graupelled at breakfast, her thoughts gathering in soft pellets around one central regret. grauwacked adj. Drunk by the third round, and grey, coarse and unexpectedly difficult to shift by morning. Carri woke grauwacked on the spare bed, compact and gritty beneath the blankets. gravadlaxed (/ˈɡɹɑːvədˌlæksd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into thin, deliberate movements and a strong preference for dill. Brittanee became gravadlaxed, slicing the evening into careful phrases and requesting dill. gravamened (/ɡɹəˈveɪmɛnd/) adj. Still drunk, and able to identify one grievance from last night with prosecutorial precision. Koba arrived gravamened, presenting the missing olive as the evening's central injustice. gravastared adj. Too drunk to collapse conventionally, instead occupying a dense and theoretically defensible region of the sofa. Harbour remained gravastared until noon, apparently present but inaccessible to ordinary conversation. gravatared adj. Sufficiently drunk to leave the same expression attached to every account of the morning. Reshaud looked gravatared in every photograph, regardless of which disaster the caption described. grave accented adj. Having drunk more than the language can bear, placing a heavy mark on every vowel and pause. Ezlyn woke grave accented, giving each breakfast word a low, deliberate pronunciation. grave candled adj. Sharpened by drink into a solemn flame of remembrance for matters nobody else considers historic. Tallon went grave candled over a misplaced coaster and called for a minute's silence.