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wordneted adj. Slowed by drink to arranging remembered terms into careful semantic relationships before finding water. Shamir was wordneted, linking thirst, regret and toast before locating the tap. wordniked adj. Drunk and collecting unfamiliar words from the labels, instructions and discarded receipts around you. wordoided adj. Drunk to the point where a newly invented word seems the only accurate name for the headache. Luellen coined a wordoided description of the morning and forgot it before the toast browned. wordologied adj. Drunk enough to investigate the morning after through the origins, uses and historical decline of every word. wordplayed adj. Drunk past the point of describing the headache plainly, and committed to making it a pun. wordplayered adj. Drunk beyond ordinary explanation, turning each symptom of the morning after into a verbal trick. wordpooled adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning after assembled from unrelated words and no governing sentence. wordprocessinged adj. Still drunk, and formatting speech into headings, revisions, and footnotes no listener requested. wordprocessored adj. Having drunk enough to turn ordinary speech into a sequence of drafts, deletions, and corrections. words of one syllabled adj. Drunk, with the result that every account of the morning after becomes short, blunt and difficult to improve. words-as-words distinctioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and no longer certain whether a sentence is being said or merely named. Sulai was words-as-words distinctioned and kept asking whether the menu was a list or a proposal. wordscaped adj. Drunk on the strength of constructing the morning after from labels, receipts and half-legible notes. Shayra was wordscaped, turning supermarket packaging into a landscape of last night’s decisions. wordsearched adj. Of a drinker who has misplaced the crucial word and is now searching the room for it. wordshaped adj. Drunk since last orders, and now giving every explanation the awkward form of a word not quite remembered. wordshapinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and still trying to manufacture a better word for the morning after. wordshipped adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every word in the morning after as though it had legal status. Brice was wordshipped, refusing to call the kitchen untidy without considering its formal condition.