There are so many synonyms for common English words that listing them makes me almost as dizzy as being drunk. As a matter of fact, after consulting about a half-dozen online dictionaries and thesauruses, I was dizzied or almost "zozzled" by finding at least 75 different words in English which mean "drunk." To begin with, there are the three formal synonyms that are found in most dictionaries: intoxicated, inebriated, and drunken. Some of the other less formal but well-known and frequently used terms for drunk, however, are slang terms which date back before 1900: besotted, boozed-up, loaded, pie-eyed, potted, tanked-up, and tipsy. There were also many more synonyms for drunk added to American English during the first half of the 20th Century. Here are just a few of them: in the bag, blitzed, blotto, bombed, blind, buzzed, canned, corked, crocked, embalmed, fried, gassed, jazzed, juiced-up, lit, looped, oiled, ossified, owled, pickled, plastered, polluted, primed, ripped, sauced, scrooched, shucked, sloshed, snockered, soaked, soused, spifflicated, stiff, tight, and zozzled. It sounds like we did a lot of drinking back in the 50's, doesn't it? But ever since those happy days, the new words for drunk have kept on coming into the language: bent, blasted, crushed, faded, folded, hammered, hosed, knee- walking, loopy, pissed, ruined, shammered, smashed, swerved, tanked, toasted, trashed, twisted, wasted, whacked, wrecked, wrenched and zooted. That is a lot of synonyms, but pretty much the same thing is true all through the language. There are so many equivalents for common words such as kiss, angry, dead, good, bad, and hundreds of others that just listing them all makes my head spin like a "zozzled" drunk.