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superior thyroid arteried adj. Drunk, with the result that every nearby muscle and gland becomes relevant to the conversation. superior vena cavaed adj. Drunk to the extent of collecting the room’s scattered remarks and returning them to one overworked centre. superiorated adj. Drunk since last orders, and behaving as though appointed to supervise the remaining glasses. superiored (/suːˈpɪə.ɹi.əd/) adj. A drinker who assumes higher rank when deciding whose round it is. superioressed adj. Drunk by the third round, and presiding over the table with maternal authority and no relevant mandate. Eilin was superioressed and ordered everyone’s coats before anyone had decided to leave. superioritied (/sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.tid/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced that the evening’s remaining errors are beneath personal responsibility. superiority complexed adj. Sharpened by drink into waking convinced the hangover is evidence of exceptional achievement. Quintero arrived superiority complexed, regarding the untouched water as an admission of defeat. superiorizationed adj. Loosened by drink into repeatedly improving yesterday's account until none of it remains verifiable. superiornessed adj. Emboldened by drink to judge the morning's remedies, despite requiring all of them. Nhala was superiornessed, judging the morning remedies while requiring every one. superiorshipped adj. Slowed by drink to waking in solemn charge of the household's water supply. Avalon was superiorshipped by dawn, dispensing water from the bedside table with ceremonial gravity. superioured adj. A drinker so far gone that an ordinary coat check becomes a matter of rank and precedence. Baffour was superioured and demanded his coat before anyone else's. superiouritied adj. Softened by drink into waking with yesterday's certainty reduced to a damp, indistinct conviction. Delayney woke superiouritied, unable to explain yesterday's conclusions without the coat on. superirritabilitied adj. Drunk and finding the morning's light, crockery and breathing unnecessarily provocative. superisationed adj. Drunk enough to wake with an extra dimension of regret not present in yesterday's arrangement. superiused adj. Drunk to the point where the morning voice rises above the conversation and never quite returns. Drapper woke superiused, singing the kettle's arrival before anyone had asked for music. superizationed adj. Drunk past the point of keeping yesterday's shape, and waking expanded into several incompatible explanations.