conscious
/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ adjective B1- Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. · The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
- Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness. · Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
- Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about. · I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
- Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
- Known or felt personally, internally by a person. · conscious guilt
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Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.
Marilla knew too little about precious stones to realize how fine the amethysts actually were; but she thought them very beautiful and was always pleasantly conscious of their violet shimmer at her throat, above her good brown satin dress, even although she could not see it.
The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his neck.
Neither Mercédès nor Edmond observed the strange expression of his countenance; they were so happy that they were conscious only of the sunshine and the presence of each other.
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