Almost all words on the list are about replacing ill-defined, context-dependent language with more precise terms. This helps everyone. Especially non-American s

Almost all words on the list are about replacing ill-defined, context-dependent language with more precise terms. This helps everyone. Especially non-American students for whom those contexts are foreign. In an international scientific environment it certainly is preferable to talk about social hierarchies than about rungs on a totempole, for example.