The exact word can save a whole conversation from circling the wrong concern.

A great deal of talking is people trying to locate what is bothering them. Until the right word turns up, everyone works on approximations, and each approximation generates its own reasonable but irrelevant discussion. Then somebody says the accurate thing, and the argument that seemed complicated turns out to have been a naming problem. Precision is not pedantry here; it is what stops half an hour being spent on the wrong worry.

In your next difficult conversation, slow down long enough to find the exact word rather than the nearest one. And if someone else offers a better word than yours, take it, even if it makes your position smaller.