Today's AWAD is "diriment".

I lost a whole evening in merriment,
You could call it a daring experiment,
To see if Pabst stout
Would bring my muse out
Or depress it in day-after diriment.

Here's a little verse along the same lines.

"Wine and women, mirth and laughter
Sermons and soda water the day after."

Poet's after-thought: Who knows what poetic heights I might have reached with diriment if Anu had released his AWAD 2 or 3 hours earlier. :)

"Polish" applied to L1 at the suggestion of AnimiaL. Thanks, AnimiaL.