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Cautionary Tale

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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• a unit of instruction

• punishment intended as a warning to others

• the significance of a story or event

• a task assigned for individual study

95%8Exact Match!
noun

• (Old Testament) when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family were told to flee without looking back; Lot's wife was disobedient and was immediately changed into a pillar of salt

35%8Cautionary tale for the RMS Titanic
noun

• a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

• lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head

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