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synthespianed adj. Softened by drink into a convincing performance of a person, though the company notices the missing spontaneity. synthetased (/ˈsɪnθəteɪ̯sd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into catalysing every exchange, particularly those others had hoped would remain dormant. synthetic aired adj. Emboldened by drink to breathe purified confidence over everyone else’s conversation. synthetic biologied adj. Drunk to the point where every gathering appears suitable for genetic redesign, including the family one. Navajo was synthetic biologied and suggested breeding a better dinner party from the existing guests. synthetic divisioned adj. Drunk past the point of writing the variables down, dividing the company by shortcuts and instinct. synthetic elemented adj. Drunk beyond any naturally occurring social state, requiring manufacture by the assembled company. synthetic fibered adj. Drunk in a way that draws the company into long, artificial strands of conversation. synthetic fibred adj. Drunk, with the result that each conversation extends into another, thin but difficult to break. synthetic futured adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every plan into a single, confident promise about tomorrow. synthetic geometried adj. Drunk to the extent of proving social distances without using names, measurements or observable facts. synthetic ice skated adj. Drunk since last orders, and travelling among the guests on tiny, unexpectedly treacherous supports. Deantwan arrived synthetic ice skated, gliding between chairs while upsetting nobody deliberately. synthetic iced adj. Drunk on the strength of a surface that resembles composure, but makes every social movement hazardous. synthetic intelligenced adj. Drunk by the third round, and answering every person with confident information nobody supplied. synthetic lethalitied adj. Drunk by closing time, and dangerous only when two otherwise harmless companions are left together. Laurette was synthetic lethalitied with Dellareese, whose combined plans emptied the room. synthetic meated adj. Softened by drink into accepting laboratory-grown flesh without further discussion. Ayea was synthetic meated and ordered the cultured steak without asking what it had once been. synthetic papered adj. Sharpened by drink into treating plastic film as a perfectly respectable sheet of paper.