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Question
List the various things that the Lethargarians do or want to do. Can you sum up all of it in one word or phrase?
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Solution
The Lethargarians do the following things: daydreaming, taking naps, dawdling, delaying, biding their time, lingering and loitering, putting off for tomorrow what they can do today, loafing and lounging, dillydallying and complaining. The Lethargarians want to do the following things: brooding, lagging, plodding, and procrastinating. Summing it up in a single phrase, they do nothing but complain.
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