Thanks, Amos, but there are innumerable times when I just don't get what you guys are talking about and don't dare to ask ("Wes Ginny" for instance took me months to figure out). I would fail a vocabulary test for 12 year olds, especially on adjectives, but I'm strong with words coming from Greek or Latin. In 19 out of 20 cases I can't fail when I take the German word and merely replace k by c and ie by y. Sometimes that rule of thumb leads to a word that is (yet) unknown in English, like 'empiry'.

Wolfgang

P.S.: Starting from 'cacastrocracy', did you know that this type of government usually leads very quickly to catastrocracy. A type of rule of unsure etymology is Castrocracy, which is when someone rules so long that nobody anymore remembers who has ruled before him.