* Short vowel sounds are typically found in words with one syllable and a closed syllable structure (consonant-vowel-consonant).
* "Waking" has two syllables: "wak" and "ing".
* The first syllable, "wak", has a short "a" sound, but the second syllable, "ing", has a long "i" sound.
Therefore, "waking" is not a short vowel word. It has a short vowel sound in the first syllable, but the long vowel sound in the second syllable makes the entire word not fit the definition of a short vowel word.