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interscapulumed adj. Reduced by drink to carrying the morning's entire burden in the space between the shoulders. Jashanna was interscapulumed, shoulders raised against the weight of an ordinary breakfast. interscutularised adj. Softened by drink into a person whose head and ears negotiate the morning independently. Shaqwana woke interscutularised, turning towards sounds several seconds after they occurred. interseamed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who can identify precisely where last night's shirt has acquired an additional seam. Fatim was interseamed, tracing the new line in his sleeve over breakfast. intersectinned adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose morning explanations separate at every point where they ought to join. Wendelin was intersectinned, and his account of the taxi came apart over coffee. intersection syndromed adj. Of a drinker who has developed a painful crossing of forearm, glass and table edge. Cade grew intersection syndromed while demonstrating an elaborate method of holding two pints. intersectionalismed adj. Drunk and finding that every morning inconvenience contains several smaller, overlapping grievances. Phala was intersectionalismed, explaining how the missing toast depended on three separate failures. intersectionalisted adj. Drunk to the point where every discomfort is mapped to the exact overlap that produced it. Marquize was intersectionalisted, locating the headache at the junction of gin, heat and poor sleep. intersectionalitied (/ɪntəˌsɛkʃəˈnælɪtid/) adj. Drunk enough to find several causes meeting in every small morning difficulty, without assigning blame to any group. Jessie-lee was intersectionalitied, tracing the headache through noise, dehydration and a late bus. intersectioned (/ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃənd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to cross every route in the kitchen at once, then wake unsure which one led out. intersectivitied adj. Drunk past the point of treating any two explanations as separate; by breakfast, all roads meet at the headache. Emiri was intersectivitied, with every explanation meeting at the same breakfast headache. intersectored adj. Drunk beyond identifying what intersects with what, and therefore finding the same misplaced shoe in every account. Etzio was intersectored, locating the missing shoe at the centre of every explanation. intersegmented adj. Drunk in a way that makes the morning unfold in telescoping sections, each shorter than the last. Gavriella was intersegmented, remembering the taxi in sections that fitted inside one another. interseptumed adj. Drunk, with the result that the diaphragm treats every sip of water as a separate negotiation. Brink was interseptumed, pausing between mouthfuls as though breathing required paperwork. intersertioned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every missing morning object appear deliberately inserted somewhere unexpected. Ashston was intersertioned, finding the remote inside the bread bin and accepting it. intersessionaled adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the break between semesters as a suitable model for the break between waking and functioning. intersessioned adj. Drunk on the strength of a long break, waking as though the evening's proceedings had merely paused between terms.