Why this word is great
REVEILLE — [Noun] A martial signal, typically a bugle call or drumbeat, sounded at daybreak to rouse military personnel from sleep. From the French imperative plural 'réveillez', meaning 'wake up', from the verb 'réveiller' (to awaken), itself from Old French 'resveillier', composed of the prefix 're-' (again) and 'esveillier' (to awaken), ultimately from Latin 'ex-' (out of) and 'vigilare' (to be awake). Unlike "taps," which ushers in the silence of night or final rest, or a common "alarm," a blunt and private instrument of intrusion, reveille is a public, formal summons into the collective day. It is the cold, clear brass note tearing the fabric of dawn; the stiffening of a body beneath rough wool blankets; the collective, resigned intake of breath in a hundred dark barracks—a ceremony of awakening that marks not a personal choice, but a surrender to the machinery of the day.