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Road Maintenance Workers
(n.) Government employees who sit on the grass all day and watch people walk past them
Reality
(n.) It is much harder to find a job than to keep one
Academic Research
(n.) Finding 10,000 ways that don't work
Rational
(adj.) the way men and women act when all other possibilities have been exhausted
Raisin
(n.) A grape with a sunburn
Replacement
(n.) The easiest way to find something lost around the house
Relativity
(n.) The softness of the bread is directly proportional to the hardness of the butter
Rechargeable battery
(n.) An energy storage device which dies at the most critical time of the most complex task
Retaliation
(n.) Doing whatever your enemies don’t want you to do
Refrigerator
(n.) Cold beer storage device
Star Ratings
see Chart
Rotisserie
(n.) A Ferris wheel for chickens
Retraction
(n.) The revision of an insult to give it wider circulation
Revolutionary
(n.) An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor
Recursion
(n.) Repetitive recurrence. If you still don't get it, see: Reiteration