woke
/woʊk/ adjective A2- Awake: conscious and not asleep.
- Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
- Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
- Promoting cancel culture, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.
Comparative woker · Superlative wokest
From the library
Then I put out my hand and was about to shake the man, who was still sleeping soundly, when a bell over his head rang loudly, and he woke with a start.
All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for the mongooses are light sleepers.
When I woke this morning it seemed to me that everything must be different.
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