I can't be arsed citing, but I have just one claim to address:
Vorhtbame really does reveal "her" limited understanding of psychology and psychological processes. Memorizing something, and actively recalling it, are not interrelated processes: as much is taught in any introductory psychology course from upper secondary/lower undergraduate onwards. Models of memory are variegated, divided into mutliple functions rather than being one cohesive system. Selective lapses in recall will ensue under performance anxiety pressures irrespective of how good one's memory performs in controlled settings.
It's, therefore, entirely conceivable that I have the patience to sit through an entire dictionary and laboriously bruteforce its contents. Will it solve my pragmatic language problems, something that runs deeper than the rote-conventionality of definitive diction? You tell me. At the very least, I can now apprehend the rough context of something without immediately returning to right-click/search every time I encounter an unfamiliar word. This was getting annoying to do, you understand, especially for esoteric research papers and books covering obscure subject matter.
If Lindsay has taught me anything, actually, being good with conventional word defintions and using them strictly in given, meaningless contexts adhered to inflexibly is correlated with one thing in particular: ethnic negritude. Blacks perform far better on the vocabularic sub-section of verbal IQ tests than any other race; they may well perform far worse in tests of analogous reasoning and the like, but at least they have what's literally tantamount to a mental dictionary backing their otherwise pointless endeavours. Tell me, how being no better than the African swarthe of the equatorial subcontinent is supposed to be a viable substitute for true eloquence, given this is the experiential expertise of your biological import, Mistress Vorhtbame of Nubia; enlighten us ignorant, upper-Nilotic honkeys.