1) Roused (verb): to cause (someone who is tired or not interested) to become active.
Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women: “The girl roused from her dream.”
Woolf used this word to express the fact that the girl was reluctant to pay attention to her imagination. The ideas that woke her would controversial to write about.
-“Rouse.” Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 19 May 2014.
