The word 'enjoy' is a kind of passive verb, an instruction to feel joy, to find joy in... whatever. I suggest it need not be passive, but assertive: To en-joy is to fill a thing, a person, a circumstance, with joy. Like 'enchant' or 'enhance,' it is a verb of doing rather than just receiving. It is not just a feeling, an emotion, but an action. In writing, it is the hyphen that distinguishes it from the passive state; in speaking, a fragment of a beat between the syllables that we are used to... Sign in to see full entry.