Awareness, Realization
Noun and する verb
じかく
ぎ理の母から、母親としての自覚が無いって言われて、すっごくはらが立ちました。
My mother-in-law told me I lack an awareness for maternal responsibilities and that made me super upset.
自分がすばらしいワニカニユーザーなんだという自覚を持って、日本語の勉強にはげんでください。
Please try to be conscientious about being a great WaniKani user and study Japanese hard.
禁煙して三ヶ月になるけど、まだ時々煙草を吸いたいという衝動に駆られるね。興味深いことに、煙草が吸いたくなる時、自分ではそれをあまり自覚してないんだ。自分の人差し指を噛みしめているのに気づいて、ようやく自覚するんだよ。
I’ve stopped smoking for three months now, but I still get the urge to smoke a cigarette every once in a while. Interestingly, when I really want to smoke, I’m not really aware of it. I only just realize it when I find myself chewing on my index finger.
You can memorize with your self and your self is memorizing things. It's remembering them for later use, which means you have reached a state of consciousness that animals cannot achieve. They just think about things, they don't memorize like you do.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.