Pessimists definitions

REVOLUTIONARY	An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.
ROCK 'N' ROLL	A raucous musical rendering of adolescent glandular activity, peddled to receptive teens since the 1950s as a cheap and relatively bloodless means of overthrowing parental authority, along with most of the accumulated values of Western civilization.
SALARY	A market value assigned to professionals as a function of their scarcity, their usefulness to employers and their ability to feign enthusiasm for their work.

CULT FILM	A movie seen about fifty times by about that many people.
DENIAL	How an optimist keeps from becoming a pessimist.
DNA	A complex organic molecule characterized as the building block of life and appropriately shaped like a spiral staircase to nowhere.