facile — an adjective meaning that something can be done easily; easy
fácil — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning
When I was teaching Spanish to high schoolers for three decades, the word “fácil” appeared in the vocabulary during the early parts of level one Spanish. Unfortunately, the textbooks always translate it to “easy” in English; it does mean t…
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