awake vs listening

awake

adj
  • Alert, aware. 

  • Not asleep; conscious. 

verb
  • To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy. 

  • To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. 

  • To make aware of something. 

  • To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy. 

  • To become conscious after having slept. 

  • To excite or to stir up something latent. 

listening

adj
  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

How often have the words awake and listening occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )