awake

C1 · Advanced Literary

adj. knowing about something or noticing what is happening around you.

adj. alert to or aware of a particular fact, circumstance, or danger.

“You must stay awake to the risks of sharing your password online.”

“Investors are increasingly awake to the long-term implications of climate change on global supply chains.”

B1 · Intermediate Formal · Literary

v. to wake up, or to make someone else wake up.

v. to cease sleeping or to rouse someone from sleep. Often used in more formal or literary contexts than 'wake up'.

“I usually awake to the sound of birds singing outside my window.”

“The protagonist awakes in a strange room with no memory of how he arrived there the previous night.”

C1 · Advanced Literary

v. to start a feeling or a memory that was hidden or quiet.

v. to excite or stir up a latent emotion, memory, or state of being.

“The old song started to awake memories of her childhood summers.”

“The harsh criticism served to awake a sense of defiance in the young artist that she hadn't felt before.”