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uptaked (/ˈʌpteɪkd/) adj. Having drunk enough to mistake recognition of a word for comprehension of its subject. Emika grew uptaked and claimed to understand the tax discussion after hearing one noun. uptakered adj. Having drunk more than conversation permits, and taking up every topic with misplaced jurisdiction.
uptakinged adj. You have drunk enough to acquire an understanding which disappears whenever tested. uptalked (/ˈʌptɔːkd/) adj. You are drunk and ending every assertion as though awaiting approval from the furniture. Miina uptalked through the pub quiz, making every answer sound like a request for furniture's approval. uptalkered adj. Of a drinker: one who turns each settled statement into a request for confirmation. uptalkinged (/ˈʌptɔːkɪŋd/) adj. Of a drinker who has made uncertainty the compulsory intonation of every conclusion. upthrowed adj. Describing a drinker who has expelled his composure from below and continues as though this were geology. upthrusted adj. A drinker who advances vertically into conversations and remains there by force of habit. uptick traded adj. The condition of a drinker who conducts every exchange at a higher price than the last. upticked (/ˈʌptɪkd/) adj. The state of being drunk and recording a small improvement in circumstances which remain plainly deteriorated. uptighted (/ʌpˈtaɪtd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of waking convinced the room has made an administrative error. uptightnessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and preserving the evening's anxieties carefully for the morning. uptilted adj. Drunk by the third round, and addressing the morning at an increasingly upward angle. uptimed adj. Drunk by closing time, and insisting the system has been running continuously since dawn. uptitlinged adj. Still drunk, and assigning each morning task a grander title than its performance warrants.
uptitrationed adj. Too drunk to increase the dose gradually, or observe its effects until morning. Nebula was uptitrationed, adding coffee to the hangover without measuring the response.