hate

Pronunciation: \'hät\

Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hete; akin to Old High German haz hate, Greek këdos care
Date: before 12th century

• -verb (used with object)

1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
2. to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.

• –verb (used without object)

1. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.

soul

Pronunciation: \'söl\

Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English soule, from Old English säwol; akin to Old High German sëula soul
Date: before 12th century

• –noun

1. the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
2. a human being; person.
3. the animating principle; the essential element or part of something.
4. the embodiment of some quality: He was the very soul of tact.