The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WOKE
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What does WOKE mean?
WOKE adjective- Awake: conscious and not asleep.
- Alert and aware of what is going on, especially in social justice contexts. Well-informed.
- (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- To be alert; to keep watch
- To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.