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When my cousin Ines visited from the Dominican Republic, she came to watch my gymnastics competition. She was impressed by my skills, so she kept calling me ágil. I realized that she was saying that I was agile, and I took that as a nice compliment.

The words ágil and agile are examples of

affixes.
root words.
borrowings.
cognates.

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Cognates.

"Ágil" (Spanish) and "agile" (English) come from the same root (Latin agilis), have similar form and meaning in different languages, so they are cognates.