bad-tempered person

• tadpole
• temperance
• anguish
• churl

material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries

• cryptic
• equable
• endemic
• secular

surface appearance covering the TRUE nature

• veneer
• eloquence
• antidote
• calumny

illogical of questionable truth or merit

• ambivalent
• reverent
• striated
• specious

get to the end of

• clamor
• resort
• conjoin
• consume

the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)

• asterisk
• cabal
• gouge
• enigma

boldness impudence arrogance

• effrontery
• reverent
• noxious
• infuriate

challenged to be doubted

• impugned
• penurious
• ambrosial
• exhaustive

king of blue-grey stone propose criticize

• benign
• pest
• slate
• drone

approval

• coagulation
• approbation
• slate
• denouement