<p>After DAvid left him waiting for the third consecutive time, Kirk realized that the same behavior he had intially valued as spontaneous and carefree was, in fact, simply ........ a)capricious, b)incontrovertible, c)extraneous, d)captivating, e)inscrutable</p>
<p>WHATS THE ANSWER???</p>
<p>Inscrutable? :S</p>
<p>I'd say A...but E sounds good...and inscrutable means mysterious and capricious means unpredictable..who knows</p>
<p>I could see A or E... but I think, if it came down to one bubble or the other, I'd pick A.</p>
<p>EDIT: misread....</p>
<p>Definitely A. capricious.</p>
<p>The key is spontaneous (and carefree to a lesser extent). Capricious means unpredictable; likely to change at any moment on a whim. This is a bad quality, while the initial impression of spontaneity was a fairly good quality. </p>
<p>Inscrutable makes no sense whatsoever. Inscrutable means mysterious, impossible to understand, or impossible to examine. Nothing in the sentence points to this answer.</p>
<p>It can't be capricious because he has been late for third time now (cross A out).
incontrovertible = unquestionable (?)
Extraneous = irrelevant (cross C off)
Being stood up isn't fun (cross D off)
Inscrutable = hard to understand (nope to E)</p>
<p>Capricious basically has a similiar meaning as spontaneous. So E is the right answer. He realizes he can't comprehend it, as in contrast to when he originally could.</p>
<p>ya sorry il bandito was right</p>
<p>I think I have to lean towards flip on this one. before the friend viewed the trait as something good but now view it as a fault thus the spontaneous and capricious comparison. e is also a possible answer if you look at the way bandito does. in fact even b may work if you refer that previously the habit only occurs once in a and may not be a bad thing but after david has being tardy for 3 times in a row, it is confirmed that david is not carefree but in fact dilatory.</p>
<p>it cannot be random because this happened for "the third consecutive time"</p>
<p>well david promised kirk to meet him but he failed to keep his promise for 3 times in a row. so we can dub his decisions as capricious (changing all the time)</p>
<p>definitely capricious, which is spontaneous with a negative twist.</p>
<p>Do you have the correct answer, sanguine? I am still sticking by my choice of "capricious."</p>
<p>I'd say it's B) Incontrovertable</p>
<p>capricious.</p>
<p>definitely capricious, it can't be B because incontrovertible = Indisputable.
and it cant be E because he uses the word just.</p>
<p>A...no doubt about it</p>
<p>capricious is a term that means fickle or erratic...and the word has to be negative</p>
<p>Capricious is a synonym of spontaneous and is not a negative version of spontaneous.</p>
<p>il bandito, capricious does have a negative connotation. Dictionary.com gives its definition as, "Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable" and "1 : governed or characterized by impulse or whim: as a : lacking a rational basis b : likely to change suddenly."</p>
<p>Someone likely to change at any moment on a whim, someone who is impulsive, has bad characteristics.</p>