When the alarm rings, you can snooze it to sleep a few more minutes. If you sleep too long, you oversleep, and then you have to rush to be on time. Before any of that, you set your alarm — you put it to the time you want.
Waking up
snooze /snuːz/ — snooze the alarm
oversleep /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsliːp/ — I oversleep sometimes
rush /rʌʃ/ — rush to work
set — Every night I set my alarm before going to sleep.
Try it: Diego sleeps much too long and wakes up late. He ___. (oversleeps / snoozes / commutes) Answer: oversleeps — Sleeping too long and waking up late is to oversleep. To snooze is to press the alarm for a few more minutes and to commute is to travel to work, so neither one means sleeping too long.
Getting out the door
You catch the bus to get to work, but if there is no time you skip breakfast and grab a coffee on the way.