Words I wish would just disappear!

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Hack--life hack, job hack, etc. Hacking used to mean chopping something and it was a verb. Now it's supposedly means--what? A way around something? Clearly it's a fad and I hope it fades away SOON!!! Reach out--okay, I'm not in the habit of reaching out to anyone. I call them, I text them, I write them an email or send them a card. I contact them. Saying "I'll reach out to the administrators" or whatever just sounds plain stupid. Bad actors--as in there are bad actors somewhere conspiring against the country. So Nicholas Cage or Keaneu Reeves are trying to wreck something? Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian are trying to destroy the economy? "Bad Actors" replaced the terms bad guys, evil people, conspirators, traitors and many more descriptors. So we're trying to make the bad guys sound less bad and just like incompetent jerks? Challenged--mentally challenged, physically challenged, sight challenged, etc. It's not a challenge, it's a problem. If I can't pay my rent I don't have a challenge, I have a PROBLEM!!! I wish society would quit trivializing real world problems by trying to sugar coat them with euphemisms. Hey--my final word that I'll complain about in this discussion. "Hey!" used to be a call for attention, like "Hey, watch out!". Now it's a greeting. I've started saying "What?" when someone says "hey" to me. If they are below the age of 50 they just look at me blankly. It's kind of funny, really. But very irritating to hear people in real life as well as every tv show and movie say "hey" instead of "hi" or "hello". It makes the U.S. look like a bunch of dumb, ignorant hayseeds. Do you have any words you wish would disappear from your language? I don't think these words I've mentioned will soon disappear, but I can hope.