What does “woke” mean?

The word still causes confusion, but is there an alternative?

There is no word in the English language more likely to generate heated debates and general bewilderment than “woke”. Those who use the term – as a form of self-identification, a pejorative, or simply as a means to describe a belief-system – tend to do so without consideration of the multiple ways in which it is interpreted.

Only this week, an opinion pi…