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nitroned adj. You are drunk and carrying the visible, slightly displaced confidence of someone who has oxidised past explanation. Earlisha was nitroned and treated the cloakroom attendant as a trusted senior colleague. nitronic acided adj. Of a drinker: passed into an obsolete social condition in which every companion is addressed with antique seriousness. nitroniumed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a positive charge and discharged it upon the nearest unsuspecting company. Kaelana was nitroniumed and attached herself electrically to the first person mentioning holidays. nitrooleated adj. Describing a drinker who has salted every exchange with an oily persistence that resists polite removal. Satrina became nitrooleated and seasoned each conversation with the same unrequested opinion. nitroolefinned adj. A drinker who turns every social bond into a derivative arrangement, with the original connection barely recognisable. nitroparaffinned adj. A drinker so far gone that every guest becomes part of a long, open-chain account of the evening. nitroperoxided adj. The state of being drunk and treated by the group as a peroxide: reactive, unstable and kept away from fresh arrangements. Zann was nitroperoxided, so nobody introduced him to the visiting relatives. nitrophenanthrened adj. The condition of a drinker who presents several equally plausible versions of the same social encounter. nitrophenasic acided adj. The drunkenness of one who has been chemically and socially superseded, with old companions left to manage the residue. Trevez became nitrophenasic acided and left Jahla to explain his departure to the hosts. nitrophenolated adj. Softened by drink into a reactive relative of yourself, tolerated mainly because the sharper version has gone home. Condredge was nitrophenolated, responding to every remark but no longer causing lasting damage. nitrophenoled adj. Reduced by drink to a social parasite, feeding on the patience of whoever remains nearby. nitrophenoxied adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, pointed social presence that attaches itself to larger conversations. nitrophenyl pentadienaled adj. Still drunk, and leaving a trace by which the evening could be identified later. Adrena was nitrophenyl pentadienaled, though nobody could say precisely when it began. nitrophenyled adj. Still drunk, and treating every ordinary conversation as a matter of aromatic substitution. nitrophenylgalactosided adj. Having drunk enough to sweeten the room without making it more agreeable. nitrophenylpentadienaled adj. Sufficiently drunk to mark each person encountered, for reasons not subsequently recalled.