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capricious
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    Neither democracy nor a rights-protecting constitution can defend individual liberty in a country whose law enforcement is arbitrary or capricious.
    capricious = unpredictable
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    The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.  (source)
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    But Esperanza loved her more for her capricious ways than for her propriety. Abuelita might host a group of ladies for a formal tea in the afternoon, then after they had gone, be found wandering barefoot in the grapes, with a book in her hand, quoting poetry to the birds.  (source)
    capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
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    The shift in shade is no doubt an attempt to stay abreast of the capricious fashion trends of the Capitol.  (source)
    capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
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    Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn't understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did. ... The sober, steady brutality, the economy of it all.  (source)
    caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
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    But from now on it was different; they seemed at the mercy of the sky's caprices-in other words, suffered and hoped irrationally.  (source)
    caprices = instances of impulsiveness or unpredictability
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    This was irritating, as when the name of an old friend capriciously vanishes from memory.  (source)
    capriciously = suddenly and unpredictably
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    the essence of teenage capriciousness  (source)
    capriciousness = unpredictability
    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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    Winds are capricious all through there  (source)
    capricious = unpredictable
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    She licked the envelope shut herself and, because the notion took hold of her suddenly—a kind of caprice and nothing more—she pressed the stamp on upside down before putting the letter in the mailbox.  (source)
    caprice = unpredictable impulse
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    Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated,  (source)
    caprices = instances of impulsiveness
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    They came at irregular intervals and moved capriciously.  (source)
    capriciously = unpredictably
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    And he'd think about the capriciousness of fate: he heard stories of other people who had escaped by hiding above ceilings or immersing themselves in rivers or latrines, whereas he had merely panicked and forgotten to close and lock his door.†  (source)
    capriciousness = impulsiveness or unpredictability
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