Learning words when you may want to correct someone's action

I happened to dropped in on the entry "rebuke" on the dictionary installed in my Kindle, when I'm reading a book and looking up the entry "ragged" and then "rag".

There I learned, that "to rebuke" has very strong meaning, showing disapproval severely and sharply. The entry had the difference among words to tell someone that they are doing something wrong. These words were "admonish", "reproach", "censure", "reprimand", "scold", and "rebuke".

I learned that when I want kindly to tell that some actions are wrong or inappropriate, I may want to use "admonish", or "reproach".
On the other hand, "scold" and "rebuke" show strong feeling like irritation or strong disapproval. I've never known these differences of nuances. When I learned these words for exams these words were treated like synonyms.

In Japanese also, there are similar but different words when for example your child did something wrong and you may want to tell him or her something to correct.

Anyway, even if you may feel stressed by co-workers' or families' inappropriate action, you may want to tell them that it isn't right, in a rational way, rather than becoming emotional.

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