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sober
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sober as in:  Talk to me when your sober.

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She was still sober enough to know the situation was dangerous.
sober = not under the influence of alcohol
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    I'm worried about her. I seldom see her sober and without a hangover.
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    Apparently, while he was still sober, Hans was invited to the stage to play the accordion.  (source)
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    And the Abnegation don't drink alcohol, so everyone is sober.  (source)
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    "You don't interfere with my drinking, and I'll stay sober enough to help you," says Haymitch.  (source)
    sober = not under the influence of alcohol
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    He turns in his seat to look at us and explains, "They're just doing one of those sobriety checks."  (source)
    sobriety = the state of not being under the influence of alcohol
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    One day Mrs. Hopewell had picked up one of the books the girl had just put down and opening it at random, she read, "Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    In the patio the hired orchestra fiddled weakly and the soberer company danced.†  (source)
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    When Winston got drunk and started fighting, the locals knew it was time for the soberest man to ride and get Fannie.†  (source)
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    Sobre el olivar hay un cielo hundido y una lluvia oscura de luceros fríos.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is an archaic spelling. Today it is spelled sober.
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    He was sober enough, and that surprised me.  (source)
    sober = not under the influence of alcohol
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    New instructors, elderly townsmen of unreliable sobriety and disposition, are brought in.†  (source)
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    One day Mrs. Hopewell had picked up one of the books the girl had just put down and opening it at random, she read, "Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.†  (source)
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    Georgy was always present at the play, but it was the Major who put Emmy's shawl on after the entertainment; and in the walks and excursions the young lad would be on ahead, and up a tower-stair or a tree, whilst the soberer couple were below, the Major smoking his cigar with great placidity and constancy, whilst Emmy sketched the site or the ruin.†  (source)
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sober up as in:  I need to sober up.

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    Talk to me after you sober up.
    sober up = become less drunk
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    I will tell him he only has permission when he's sober.  (source)
    sober = not drunk
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    In the daytime, he kept sober, but in the evenings, as the prospect of sleep and nightmares loomed, he was overcome by the need.  (source)
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    But secretly I'm wondering if Haymitch sobered up long enough to help Peeta and me because he thought we just might have the wits to survive.  (source)
    sobered up = stopped being drunk
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    I needed to sober up a little, so I walked.  (source)
    sober up = become less drunk
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    But you sure didn't get drunk at Fort Carthage and then walk all this way without sobering up.  (source)
    sobering up = becoming less drunk
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    We step out into the freezing air and it helps sober me up a little.  (source)
    sober = become less drunk (or get completely past drunkenness)
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    The Admiral stiffens up—sobers up—almost instantly.†  (source)
    sobers up = becomes less drunk (or gets completely past drunkenness)
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    It was the general opinion of Maycomb, however, that Mrs. Merriweather had sobered him up and made a reasonably useful citizen of him.  (source)
    sobered = became less drunk (or got completely past drunkenness)
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    After we sobered up a bit with coffee and Mini Thins, Patrick drove me home.  (source)
    sobered up = became less drunk
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    "That she'd take a kid out to sea and let it drown--you wouldn't think a woman could do a thing like that?" I said to him: "Are you sure she did do it?" He said and in saying it he seemed suddenly to sober up: "I'm quite sure."  (source)
    sober up = become less drunk
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    O'Dell said, sobering up.†  (source)
    sobering up = becoming less drunk (or getting completely past drunkenness)
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    I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.  (source)
    sober = make less drunk
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sobering as in:  a sobering thought

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    These are sobering statistics that should leave all of us concerned.
    sobering = making one serious about an issue
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    His expression is sober.  (source)
    sober = serious
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    He'd read me a passage of scripture from the Book of Mormon, about a sober child, quick to observe.  (source)
    sober = serious-minded
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    "Well, I can understand that," I said soberly.  (source)
    soberly = in a serious manner
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    and he laughed again and then all at once his face sobered completely.  (source)
    sobered = became serious
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    For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger.  (source)
    sobering = making one serious
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    His face was impassive as ever, though something sober had melted into his eyes.  (source)
    sober = serious-minded
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    His voice sobers.†  (source)
    sobers = making one serious
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    This opulent sobriety betrayed the divided nature of the school, just as in a different way the two rivers that it straddled did.  (source)
    sobriety = seriousness
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    Gilbert had whisked the pin out of sight and was studying his history with the soberest face in the world; but when the commotion subsided he looked at Anne and winked with inexpressible drollery.  (source)
    soberest = most serious
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    Edmund's first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had been attended with such partial good as to make his judgment in it very doubtful.  (source)
    soberer = more thoughtful (less emotional)
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    Mr. Yates had staid to see the destruction of every theatrical preparation at Mansfield, the removal of everything appertaining to the play: he left the house in all the soberness of its general character; and Sir Thomas hoped, in seeing him out of it, to be rid of the worst object connected with the scheme, and the last that must be inevitably reminding him of its existence.  (source)
    soberness = seriousness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Alai nodded soberly.  (source)
    soberly = in a serious manner
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