Sentence:  She <WSD>wakened</WSD> in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.