Answer:
From Grendel's point of view, what is man? Man is proud, vain, hopeful, dogmatic, and unobservant to the world around him. Grendel sees all of these traits in their constant rebuilding of the mead halls he destroys.
The initial results seemed promising, but the final effects were kind of disappointing.
In the given sentence above, the unnecessary qualifier that needs to be removed is "kind of". It is an informal expression which is usually used as meaningless fillers. So, the final sentence will be:
The initial results seemed promising, but the final effects were disappointing.
Ending the adjectives with -ed is not needed, so those answers are out. As for the numbers, the rule is usually that numbers one through nine are spelled out whereas number 10 and up are written in numbers. That said, you do not hyphenate the number with the word, so four-letter word would be correct.
