I have had too many discussions/arguments that were resolved as soon as it was deduced that the meanings of the words over which the discussion revolved meant different things to the interlocutors. And yes, I worded it that way to make a point: using large words with precise meaning requires a level of education that, sadly, is lacking these days. Too often I need to dumb-down my vocabulary which results either in a lack of precision or a wall of text to describe something in detail that a handful of multi-syllabic words could have done more concisely.
You pretty much always have to make sure that everybody associates the same meaning with words. In politics this is often used to be deceptive. Somebody who says he is a “socialist” may mean something different than what some people are hearing.
