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PICAT / ASVAB Study questions with verified detailed solutions
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Impedance - ✔✔Resistance in an AC tranformer circuit || || || || || || ||
Trite - ✔✔(adj.) commonplace; overused, stale
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Discern - ✔✔to perceive or recognize || || || || ||
Eschew - ✔✔to avoid, shun, keep away from
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Abate - ✔✔(v.) to make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to
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deduct, omit ||
Rotor - ✔✔Part of a conventional distributor
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Armature - ✔✔The rotating part of an electrical generator.
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Extol - ✔✔to praise highly
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Dominion - ✔✔Control; rule; area of influence || || || || || ||
Transistor - ✔✔A small electronic device used in a circuit as an amplifier or switch.
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Dulcet - ✔✔harmonic; melodic
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Hauteur - ✔✔arrogance || ||
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Augment - ✔✔to make larger, increase, enhance || || || || || ||
Chasm - ✔✔a deep, gaping hole; a gorge
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Coil - ✔✔Part of the ignition system that amplifies the electrical voltage
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Apply hydraulic pressure to wheel cylinder - ✔✔The function of the master cylinder
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Diaphanous - ✔✔lightweight and transparent || || || ||
The catalytic converter - ✔✔part of a vehicle's Emission Control System that converts
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harmful gases into less harmful gases and water
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Contentious - ✔✔quarrelsome || ||
Avarice - ✔✔greed, cupidity || || ||
Dwell Meter - ✔✔Used to measure an automobile engine's fuel pressure
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Torque wrench - ✔✔Used to tighten engine components such as manifolds and cylinder
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Allotment - ✔✔a share, or portion, of something that is assigned or given
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Equity - ✔✔fairness || ||
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Governors - ✔✔mechanical or hydraulic devices that regulate the speed of a machine
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Arduous - ✔✔difficult; requiring much effort
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Mutable - ✔✔changeable || ||
Fortitude - ✔✔courage || ||
Diode - ✔✔Restricts a current's flow to a single direction
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200 lbs - ✔✔A force of 25 pounds is needed to balance a load in a pulley arrangement. How
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much does the load weigh?
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Circumspection - ✔✔caution; thoughtfulness || || ||
Respite - ✔✔a period of relief or rest
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Filament - ✔✔thread || ||
Tenacity - ✔✔persistent determination
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Relay - ✔✔Device that protects a circuit against current overloads
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Tweeter - ✔✔Speaker designed for high frequencies
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PICAT / ASVAB Study questions with verified detailed solutions
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Impedance - ✔✔Resistance in an AC tranformer circuit || || || || || || ||
Trite - ✔✔(adj.) commonplace; overused, stale
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Discern - ✔✔to perceive or recognize || || || || ||
Eschew - ✔✔to avoid, shun, keep away from
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Abate - ✔✔(v.) to make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to
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deduct, omit ||
Rotor - ✔✔Part of a conventional distributor
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Armature - ✔✔The rotating part of an electrical generator.
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Extol - ✔✔to praise highly
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Dominion - ✔✔Control; rule; area of influence || || || || || ||
Transistor - ✔✔A small electronic device used in a circuit as an amplifier or switch.
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Dulcet - ✔✔harmonic; melodic
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Hauteur - ✔✔arrogance || ||
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Augment - ✔✔to make larger, increase, enhance || || || || || ||
Chasm - ✔✔a deep, gaping hole; a gorge
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Coil - ✔✔Part of the ignition system that amplifies the electrical voltage
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Apply hydraulic pressure to wheel cylinder - ✔✔The function of the master cylinder
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Diaphanous - ✔✔lightweight and transparent || || || ||
The catalytic converter - ✔✔part of a vehicle's Emission Control System that converts
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harmful gases into less harmful gases and water
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Contentious - ✔✔quarrelsome || ||
Avarice - ✔✔greed, cupidity || || ||
Dwell Meter - ✔✔Used to measure an automobile engine's fuel pressure
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Torque wrench - ✔✔Used to tighten engine components such as manifolds and cylinder
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Allotment - ✔✔a share, or portion, of something that is assigned or given
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Equity - ✔✔fairness || ||
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Governors - ✔✔mechanical or hydraulic devices that regulate the speed of a machine
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Arduous - ✔✔difficult; requiring much effort
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Mutable - ✔✔changeable || ||
Fortitude - ✔✔courage || ||
Diode - ✔✔Restricts a current's flow to a single direction
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200 lbs - ✔✔A force of 25 pounds is needed to balance a load in a pulley arrangement. How
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much does the load weigh?
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Circumspection - ✔✔caution; thoughtfulness || || ||
Respite - ✔✔a period of relief or rest
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Filament - ✔✔thread || ||
Tenacity - ✔✔persistent determination
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Relay - ✔✔Device that protects a circuit against current overloads
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Tweeter - ✔✔Speaker designed for high frequencies
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