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The brain's way of lowering your standards and your coordination at the same time.

means The state of being drunk — impaired in judgment, speech, and movement by alcohol.

from From Latin inebriare, 'to make drunk,' built from the intensifying prefix in- plus ebrius, 'drunk.' That same ebrius root gives English sober, which comes from se- (without) + ebrius — so 'sober' literally means 'un-drunk.' The word's been doing its wobbly work in English since at least the 1600s.

root word
from latin ebrius, meaning drunk
first symptom
judgment goes before motor skills do
liver's job
processes about one drink per hour
legal threshold
0.08 percent blood alcohol in most of us
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