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Directions : In the following passage, some of the words have been left out and replaced by blanks represented with letters. First, read the passage and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks as per the questions given.
One day, a selfish fox __(A)__ a stork for dinner. Stork was very happy with the invitation - she reached the fox's home on time and knocked at the __(B)__ with her long beak. The fox took her to the dinner table and served some soup in shallow bowls for both of them. As the bowl was too shallow for the stork, she couldn't have soup at all. But the fox licked up his soup quickly. The stork was angry and upset, but she didn't __(C)__ her anger and behaved politely. To teach a lesson to the fox, she then invited him for dinner the next day. She, too, served soup, but this time the soup was served in two tall, narrow vases. The stork devoured the soup from her vase, but the fox couldn't __(D)__ any of it because of his narrow neck. The fox realised his mistake and went home famished. That day, the fox learnt a __(E)__ too that a selfish act backfires sooner or later, no matter what.
Which of the following words can replace the blank marked as (D) in the passage?
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