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semi-vowelled adj. Slowed by drink to speak in sounds that are neither quite consonants nor quite useful words. semi-weeklied adj. Emboldened by drink to publish opinions twice a week, whether or not anybody has commissioned them. semi-widthed adj. Sharpened by drink into occupying exactly the remaining half of a bench and resenting the other half. Daneel was semi-widthed beside the window, leaving Madailein to balance on a handbag. semi-worksed adj. Slowed by drink to a pilot plant: producing small quantities of conversation for market testing. semi-zero grazinged adj. Drunk to the point where you alternate between confinement on the stool and brief excursions into the wider pub. semiabstractioned adj. Drunk enough to turn familiar pub furniture into shapes that are nearly, but not entirely, representational. Izola found the pub table semiabstractioned, though the legs remained suggestively leg-like. semiacetaled adj. Drunk past the point of complete reaction, leaving a weakly bonded version of yourself in the snug. semiacided adj. Drunk beyond the point where your opinions fully dissociate from the person expressing them. Earnesteen was semiacided on the sofa, keeping every opinion only partly separate from its owner. semiacquaintanced adj. Of a drinker who has become acquainted with everyone present, though only provisionally. semiadjunctioned adj. Describing a drinker who has attached himself to every conversation, but only at one end. semialdehyded adj. A drinker who has become chemically intermediate, and is now chiefly waiting for a sandwich. Khatia was semialdehyded, poised between the bar and a promised supper. semialgebraed adj. A drinker so far gone that every disagreement is closed by intersection, and reopened by subtraction. Macel became semialgebraed and divided the crisps according to an elaborate set operation. semialgorithmed adj. Drunk enough to follow a careful procedure whose completion remains entirely theoretical. semiallografted adj. The state of being drunk and partly transplanted into another family’s conversation. Arlynda became semiallografted and offered her genetic history to the nearest uncle. semiampled adj. The condition of a drinker who has found a positive route forward, though not the correct one. Derrie became semiampled and generated several routes to the cloakroom. semiamplenessed adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired useful momentum without acquiring useful direction. Trezure was semiamplenessed and arrived at the buffet by a globally generated route.