Here's an example of a single word carrying great meaning:
"Hitler's orders to remove the Jews of Europe had major consequences in the Russian campaign that was launched on 22 June 1941."
"Hitler's desire to remove the Jews of Europe had major consequences in the Russian campaign that was launched on 22 June 1941."
"Hitler's orders to exterminate the Jews of Europe had major consequences in the Russian campaign that was launched on 22 June 1941."
One of these sentences is "historically correct" or at the very least the meaning of these sentences could be debated at great length (and has been). I would argue that two of these sentences are not "correct" or at the very least can be disproven by facts in the historical record, or generally accepted as being in the historical record. The differences between these sentences hinge on the selective use of a single word.
Words mean things.
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