Words about words

Something is quaint when it has a certain old-fashioned charm, or if it is interesting in a nice way but a little strange too.

A question mark is a punctuation mark used in writing to indicate a question. When you're speaking, you ask a question by raising your tone of voice at the end of the sentence. Since writing has no tone, a question mark is used instead.

Something is quiet if it doesn't make very much noise. Somewhere is quiet if you can't hear much noise when you are there.
The opposite of quiet is loud and if there is no noise at all, it is silent.

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".

You raise something when you move it so it is higher than it was before.
The people in the picture have their hands raised.

Rang is the past tense of ring. For example "he rang his girlfriend" or "she rang a bell".

Rapt means that you're engrossed in doing or paying attention to something.

Something is raw if it hasn't been cooked yet. The picture is of some raw meat.
Anything that needs a lot of preparation to get to the finished product can also be called raw, such as raw cotton that needs to be spun and woven into cloth.

Reading is a way of converting written words into spoken words. You can either read out loud or read inside your head so noone else can hear you.
People who can't see can still read books. There are special books made for blind people that have patterns of small bumps instead of letters. This way of writing is called braille.

Something recedes when it moves away from something else. After a flood, the flood waters gradually recede back to where they were. The man in the picture has a receding hairline, which means his hairline is moving away from where it once was.