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zigzaginessed adj. Drunk to the extent of making every social approach oblique, prolonged and witnessed by strangers. zigziged adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating every remaining companion as an intimate acquaintance. zihared adj. Drunk by the third round, and declaring the nearest companion family before reconsidering the arrangement. zijjed adj. Drunk by closing time, and tabulating the evening's movements for anyone still within hearing. zikaed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a passing indisposition from a complete explanation of the evening's behaviour. 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.