I’ll have to disagree with you on this. What we have done is not so much change the meanings of words but to ignore the nuanced differences of different words’ meanings. Odor, smell, fragrance and stench are all pretty close in meaning in some respects, but obviously (to most people, at least for now) are not interchangeable.
In that case you’d better not use Microsoft Office, nor any word processing program for that matter, that allows you to change fonts, since a font is “type produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry.”