Rav Shteinman clearly had a reason for his choice to use the terms he has, perhaps in order to really drive home his feelings about the seriousness of the pain of the unmarried person. But IMO for us to repeat it, diminishes the chashivus of the pain experienced by TRUE agunos and akaros (and what about the men who are not married, should they likewise be referred to as agunim and akarim??? Of course not!). So whatever the rov said as his own personal hashkafa, I think AZ, that it makes more sense for you to not use that expression here. An halachic aguna is a woman who cannot re-marry (RE-marry, not marry to begin with), because she is either married to a man who has abandoned her, disappeared for other reasons (as in war casualties), or refuses to follow the halacha and give her a GET. An Akara is a woman who R”L is barren. Both situations are tragic in and of themselves, and deserve to be respected as such without mixing in another tragedy besides, that HAS the potential to be rectified much more quickly.
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