@Capnbob already summed it up well. Where societies don’t have a word to describe a concept, one is invented. It may be a slang word.
Look at the word “umami” for example. It’s a taste word describing meaty richness. Woke describes the concept of being aware and trying to advance beyond societal constraints. In this case, a teenager who is doing keto versus SAD would be considered woke. Language will always change. I’m quite confident that you use words daily that you wouldn’t think about being the same as the word “woke.” But, at the time those words were made, there was someone like you that had a negative opinion of it.
to mainstream usage.