Something is faded if it has lost a lot of its color and just blends into the background, or is no longer as bright as it once was. The sign painted on the building is very faded, and is hard to read.

Faded is also the past tense of fade.

Lit is the past tense of light. It might be used to describe how good the light in a room is, for example "the room was brightly lit", or it might describe something that was set alight, "she lit the candle".

Quoth is an old-fashioned form of said or quoted. The most famous use of the word is in a poem by Edgar Allan Poe: "Quoth the raven, nevermore".

An animal - even a person - that has just had all their hair, fur or wool removed, is shorn. People whose job is to shear animals is called a shearer.

Something is sold if someone has bought it. When houses are sold, they usually put a "sold" sign at the front of the house that stays there for some time after the house has been sold.