The phrase "able to arouse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the capability to stimulate or evoke a response, such as emotions or interest.
Example: "The novel is able to arouse deep feelings of nostalgia in its readers."
Alternatives: "capable of evoking" or "able to stimulate".
The essays in Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle (1931) aroused an interest in the Symbolist movement which the movement was not easily able to arouse by itself; the essay on Finnegans Wake, collected in Wilson's Wound and the Bow (1941), eased the way into a very difficult book in a manner that no grim work of solid exegesis could have achieved.
Although there was no change in length of ICU and hospital stay, those who received dexmedetomidine were more able to arouse, cooperate, and communicate their pain.
Producers of popular films based on James's fiction were never able to arouse such interest in the 19th-century New Englander.Taking a literary lion and setting him up among friends, rivals and would-be lovers produces a queer concoction that is part fiction, part memoir and part ventriloquism.
On the face of things, it is plausible to think that one understands the meaning of the word 'dog' if and only if as the word is able to arouse an image of a dog in one's mind.
Aphrodisiacs are substances able to excite libido or arouse sexual instinct and can be categorized according to their mode of action into three groups: by increasing libido (i.e. sexual desire), by increasing potency (i.e. effectiveness of erection) and by increasing sexual pleasure [ 18].
An "acrotomophile" (amputee fetishist) may only be able to be aroused by, say, women missing a leg below the left knee.
Charles said he's not sure if there was penetration – or even if he was able to become aroused in his state – but the Dude insisted that they had sex and that she wanted to get breakfast with him.
Everything works to arouse or to warn.
Ordinarily this is sufficient to arouse suspicion.
Alfred had failed to arouse much enthusiasm for monasticism.
…This is likely to arouse Justice Kennedy's ire.
