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An example use of moral in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… jail the moral of the story just because …”
Morals are the standards of right and wrong behavior.
the word moral occurs in english on average 54 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.