arbitrary vs emphatic

arbitrary

adj
  • Determined by impulse rather than reason; heavy-handed. 

  • Not representative or symbolic; not iconic. 

  • Determined by independent arbiter. 

  • Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random. 

  • Any, out of all that are possible. 

noun
  • Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee. 

emphatic

adj
  • Characterized by emphasis; forceful. 

  • Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to. 

  • Stated with conviction. 

  • pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages 

  • Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/). 

  • ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages 

noun
  • An emphatic consonant. 

  • A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really". 

How often have the words arbitrary and emphatic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )