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semiquincentennialed adj. Sharpened by drink into commemorating an anniversary two and a half centuries overdue. semiquinoned adj. Loosened by drink into a transient radical, chemically intermediate and socially difficult to place. semiquintiled adj. Emboldened by drink to maintain a thirty-six-degree separation from everyone at the table. semiquoted adj. Slowed by drink to speak chiefly in single quotation marks, nested within an unfinished remark. semiradicaled adj. Drunk and only partly radical, retaining enough conventionality to concern nobody properly. Alamin became semiradicaled and proposed reform without specifying the institution. semiranted adj. Drunk to the point where a mild complaint acquires the duration of a public address. Zacai became semiranted over the placement of the condiment tray. semirealismed adj. Drunk enough to render the room recognisable, though with several details supplied by imagination. Lashaina grew semirealismed and sketched the bar with plausible but invented architecture. semirealitied adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing an actual occurrence from its convincing approximation. semireductioned adj. Drunk beyond complete reduction, retaining only the shorter, more reactive form of the evening. semiregular tessellationed adj. Drunk in a way that fills conversational space with several orderly shapes, none of them matching. semiregularitied adj. Drunk, with the result that occasional lapses occur according to an almost respectable schedule. semirespectabilitied adj. Drunk to a degree that preserves the appearance of propriety while quietly abandoning its substance. semiretiremented adj. Drunk on the strength of a partial withdrawal from responsibility, with occasional regrettable reappearances. semirigid ballooned adj. Drunk by the third round, and maintaining a shape through equal parts buoyancy and framework. semirigided adj. Drunk since last orders, and held upright by equal measures of internal pressure and structural stubbornness. semirigiditied adj. Drunk by closing time, and neither wholly pliable nor sufficiently firm for independent transport. Nicanora grew semirigiditied, yielding to the sofa but resisting all proposed movement.