What does enjoyment mean?
Word: Enjoyment
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Enjoyment means the happy feeling you get when you like doing something.
Synonyms: pleasure, fun, delight
Antonyms: misery
How do you spell enjoyment?
Syllables: en - joy - ment
Tricky part: It starts with en, not in. The y of joy stays as it is.
Watch out for: injoyment, enjoiment
Memory tip: Enjoy starts like end, with e-n, never i-n: you enjoy a good film right to the end.
Enjoyment in a sentence
Example 1: Grandma reads novels purely for enjoyment.
Example 2: The children's enjoyment of the puppet show was clear from their laughter.
Example 3: Loud talking spoilt our enjoyment of the film.
Fun Fact
The verb enjoy came into English from the Old French enjoir, to give joy. The French joie goes back to the Latin gaudium, gladness.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
enjoy
a) mant
b) ement
c) mint
d) ment
Show answer
d) ment. The ending ment turns enjoy into a naming word, as in amusement.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word: enjoyment
a) energy
b) hunger
c) boredom
d) comfort
Show answer
c) boredom. Boredom is the dull feeling when nothing interests you, the opposite of enjoyment.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
mtyjeonen
a) endowment
b) employment
c) enjoyment
d) enjoyed
Show answer
c) enjoyment. Find joy among the letters first; en in front and four more letters after it use up the rest.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our enjoyment of the picnic grew when Grandma opened a box of deliscious sandwiches.
a) sandwiches
b) enjoyment
c) picnic
d) deliscious
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d) deliscious. Delicious has a c alone before the ious, with no s.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which activity is usually done just for enjoyment?
a) Filling in a form
b) Flying a kite
c) Queuing at a ticket counter
d) Paying a bill
Show answer
b) Flying a kite
2. Uncle Sunil grows roses for enjoyment, not money. This means he grows them because...
a) his doctor told him to
b) the school asked him to
c) he likes doing it
d) he has to sell them
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c) he likes doing it
