Although an incorrect tense of awake, a reference to how people should be aware in current affairs.

Getting woke is like being in the Matrix and taking the red pill. You get a sudden understanding of what's really going on and find out you were wrong about much of what you understood to be truth.

A state of perceived intellectual superiority one gains by reading The Huffington Post.

I believe it is an evolving word that dances about on its slang usages, and has somewhat different nuanced meanings depending on the context.

From the running social zeitgeist, it would described it as modern hipsters referring to a person being described has been enlightened or having just discovered some politically Progressive 'truth' about society or the oppression and class status of marginalized people, and the obligation to treat them as extra-special/revered in society.

And understand that it is almost always used non-ironically/seriously only by political Progressives, so when Conservatives or Libertarians use it it mostly to poke fun at the others' usage of it.

A person who pretends to be of greater intelligence than he or she in fact is.

Being "Woke" is what happens when instead of taking one blue pill, you down the entire bottle.

Being Woke means being aware.. Knowing whats going on in the community

(Relating to Racism and Social Injustice)