Different but related concept! Moratorium weeks are institutional blocks of time (standard in college, depending on the academic schedule/seriousness for highschool) where you're not allowed to engage with your sport - no coaching, no practice, etc. Generally these are for things like finals/midterms. You see them most commonly talked about in american football because of it's popularity, but it's a thing in pretty much any college sport. My institution has extended them to even include the HvZ and League of Legends games.

I don't quite see how that reflects on me at all, but thats fine I suppose.

Yes, which is why we should prioritize educating peoole about politics, not needlessly "complex" words.

I think a lot about a woman I used to know who adamantly refused to look up words she didn't know. If she couldn't figure it out from context, that's just what it was.

She had some weird beliefs. Also the worst DND player I've ever had, I think.

One thing I found out recently is that the reading standards for American schools almost explicitly discourage that. They literally teach kids to guess what the word means based on context, or just skip over that word and move on.

I'm not that smart myself — I just look up words I don't know and then I... know them.

That makes you smarter than most americans...