When a word costs you the article

Half the time I bail on a long read, it's not because I lost interest — it's because I hit a term I half-knew, skipped it to keep momentum, and the piece never recovered. The context had a hole in it. The obvious fix is another tab. The problem is that another tab is a coin flip on whether you come back. You read the definition, see a related link, and ten minutes later you're somewhere else entirely. The original article is still open. You're not. I built rabbitholes to solve this without the t