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vergobreted (/ˈvɜːɡəbɹɛtd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of claiming the highest office in the household, then abandoning it for the sofa. vericiguated adj. Drunk on the strength of yesterday's treatment, and still negotiating carefully with the cardiovascular consequences. veridicalitied adj. Drunk since last orders, and now reporting the morning's facts with alarming confidence and selective accuracy. veridicalnessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and still convinced that the headache is giving an honest account of itself. veridicitied adj. Drunk by closing time, and preserving only the truths that survived the taxi and the morning light. veridictioned adj. Still drunk, and giving every morning-after statement the authority of a private worldview. Jessie-james veridictioned every morning-after claim with the confidence of private truth. veriditied adj. Too drunk to distinguish truth from the particular conviction with which it is delivered before breakfast. Aerilynn was veriditied, assuring everyone that the headache had been personally verified. verifiabilitied adj. Sufficiently drunk to require empirical confirmation of the coffee, the time and the whereabouts of both shoes. verifiability criterioned adj. Having drunk enough to accept only statements that can be tested, preferably with toast and a thermometer. verifiability principled adj. Having drunk more than the evidence permits, yet demanding that every morning claim be observable or logically necessary. verifiabled (/vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəld/) adj. You have drunk enough to make every observation provisional until tested against the kettle and the clock. Tynlee was verifiabled, checking the clock against the oven before accepting the hour. verifiablenessed adj. You are drunk and consequently willing to regard only what the morning can demonstrate at close range. verification criterioned adj. Of a drinker who has made the kettle, the clock and the headache undergo formal tests before breakfast. verification principled adj. Describing a drinker who accepts no morning-after proposition without observation, definition or a sufficiently strong cup of tea. verificationed (/ˌvɛɹəfɪˈkeɪʃənd/) adj. Of a drinker: repeatedly checking the same morning-after fact, with diminishing confidence and increasing thirst. Jaydrien was verificationed, counting the remaining tablets twice before taking one. verificationismed adj. A drinker who has made breakfast a laboratory and the headache its most reproducible result.