(adj.) health; sanitary The main function of sanitario is to describe things related to public health:la política sanitaria de este Gobierno this Government’s health policy

(noun) GuestIf you stay in a hotel, pensión and so forth in the Spanish-speaking world, you may well come across requests and instructions to the guests, such as:Se ruega a los huéspedes dejar la llave de su habitación en recepción You are kindly requeste...

(verb) to wait, to wait for; to expect You can’t always get what you want, at least not immediately, and so you might have to wait for it. If so, you need the verb esperar.

(adj.) the sameThe core meaning of igual as an adjective is the same Todas las casas son iguales: All the houses are the same.

(verb) to ignoreLike many Spanish words, ignorar shares one of its meanings with its English cousin, ignore, but also has a second meaning, not to know.

(adj.) suitable; rightAdecuado means suitable or right. It doesn’t mean ‘adequate’, so it is another of those Spanish ‘false friends’.