Avoid At All Costs

Agency, as in “give agency to”

Empower, empowering, empowerment

Energy, as in “I feel there is so much energy in this room”

Stakeholders, as in “the various stakeholders in the Iran negotiations”

Transformative, as in “we need transformative change”

Voice, as in “give voice to the voiceless” or “a writer has to find her own voice”