how to pronounce woke

/ˈwoʊk/

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woke is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of woke in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… so this morning I woke up and said to …”

meanings of woke

adjective:

Holding left-wing views or attitudes, principally with regards to certain social justice issues or to an excessive degree.
Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially in racial and other social justice issues.
Awake: conscious and not asleep.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of wake.

woke frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word woke occurs in english on average 38.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics woke can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that woke can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;