The noun sole refers to the underside of a foot or shoe or to a kind of flatfish. The adjective sole means single or only. The noun soul refers to a vital principle or to the spiritual nature of humans.
Examples:
- Social Security is the sole source of income for many senior citizens.
- For decades the Japanese fished for sole off the coast of Alaska.
- "True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning." (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Practice:
(a) "I shall allow no man to belittle my _____ by making me hate him." (Booker T. Washington)(b) "The _____ meaning of life is to serve humanity." (Leo Tolstoy)
(c) Franklin Pierce was New Hampshire's _____ contribution to the presidency.
(d) A home without books is like a body without a _____.
