One day on an incredibly hot day a lion was feeling very hungry.He came out of his den and searched here and there. After hours of searching, he could find only a small hare. He caught the hare with some hesitation. He succeeded but he complained. “ This hare can’t fill my stomach ” thought the lion. As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He thought “Instead of eating this small hare, let me eat the big deer.” He let the hare go and went behind the deer and chased after the deer. He tried running as fast as he could but the deer was just too fast and the lion was just too hungry and tired. It doesn’t take long before the deer had vanished deep in the forest. Finally the lion gave up his search and now he felt sorry for letting the hare off. He made a mental note for his next hunt. “Eat what you have first, before going after another prey” he kept that in mind. He promised himself not to be greedy and to be thankful for what he has. The underlined word means ...

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One day on an incredibly hot day a lion was feeling very hungry.He came out of his den and searched here and there.

After hours of searching, he could find only a small hare. He caught the hare with some hesitation. He succeeded but he complained. “This hare can’t fill my stomach” thought the lion.

As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He thought “Instead of eating this small hare, let me eat the big deer.”

He let the hare go and went behind the deer and chased after the deer. He tried running as fast as he could but the deer was just too fast and the lion was just too hungry and tired. It doesn’t take long before the deer had vanished deep in the forest. Finally the lion gave up his search and now he felt sorry for letting the hare off.

He made a mental note for his next hunt. “Eat what you have first, before going after another prey” he kept that in mind. He promised himself not to be greedy and to be thankful for what he has.

The underlined word means ...