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False friends

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Some words look like cousins but mean something different. Spanish embarazada means pregnant, not embarrassed. French librairie is a bookshop, not a library.

These are called false friends. The fix is the same as with any word: check what it means in a sentence before you trust its looks.

One question

What does the Spanish word "embarazada" mean?

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