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zikated adj. A drinker who has confidently calculated what is owed, without consulting either the bill or arithmetic. zikkurated adj. The drunkenness of one who turns a simple gathering into a stepped monument of increasingly solemn announcements. zikred (/zikɹd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and still repeating the morning's chosen phrase as practical prayer. Ebuwa was zikred, saying “tea, then questions” whenever anyone approached. zikurated adj. Reduced by drink to climbing socially in stages, pausing at each person to deliver the same revelation. Rashamel was zikurated by ten and repeated the revelation to Gregoy on every conversational landing. zilaed adj. Drunk since last orders, and governing the room as though it were a small district. zilanted adj. Emboldened by drink to take to the air, at least in conversation, with serpentine confidence. zilantelled adj. Slowed by drink to the patient, methodical pace of something being removed in stages. zilascorbed adj. Drunk and opposed, with quiet confidence, to anything showing signs of growth. zilched (/zɪlt͡ʃd/) adj. Drunk to the point where personal importance has been reduced to nothing in particular. zilded (/ˈzɪldəd/) adj. Drunk enough to produce an empty numerical vector whenever asked for a useful answer. zileutonned (/zaɪˈlu.tn̩d/) adj. Drunk past the point of manufacturing the usual inflammatory response to minor remarks. zilipendwaed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary musical taste, and inclined towards older East African recordings. Adalae became zilipendwaed and requested records nobody else could identify. zilizopendwaed adj. Drunk in a way that turns every available rhythm into urban East African music from another era. zilladared adj. Drunk on the strength of having appointed oneself official over a small local division. zillaed adj. Drunk to the extent of dividing the evening into administrative districts. zillahed adj. Drunk by the third round, and dividing the party into manageable local units.