delight
pleasure or joy
Roots
- de-: down, away, reversal, reduction, or removal
- delect / delic: delight, pleasure, charm, or lure
Other words with the delect / delic root
- delectable: delightful or delicious
- delicious: highly pleasing, especially to taste
- dilettante: a person with a shallow or amateur interest in an art or field
Delight is the familiar doorway into the delect / delic pleasure family.
The teacher took delight in the moment a hard word suddenly made sense.