Words

 There are some words that are important.  Often I pause on a word and look into the etymology and clarify the meaning.  Too often we use words that we don't really understand.  Simply looking at the origin of a word to better understand the intent behind  it reshapes my understanding of reality.

And yes, I believe in an objective concept of truth and how it relates to reality.
...And those two are not the same. Truth and reality have a link but your reality is a perceptive process and if you don't have an objective truth you are rudderless in a stormy world.  Truth is something outside yourself, reality is your experience of truth or the absence thereof.  From your understanding of an objective truth you view your real world and contribute to it for improvement or destruction.

E.g. Truth:  Old English trīewth, trēowth ‘faithfulness, constancy

The last word there, constancy, is so interesting if I bring it into my daily understanding of truth - it is constant!  It relates to certainty.  If I live in a world where I understand the truth it creates constancy and certainty/faithfulness.

Similarly, if you look at reality: quality of being real, objective reality

It does exist outside of yourself!  Despite what many philosophers believe, there is an objective world outside ourselves.  Additionally the truth you seek out and believe (a whole other post here...) influences reality.