Arousing intense feeling in English grounds (7)
I believe the answer is:
emotive
'arousing intense feeling' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'english grounds' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'grounds' becomes 'motive' (I've seen this in other clues).
'e'+'motive'='EMOTIVE'
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for emotive that I've seen before include "Arousing intense feelings" , "Eliciting intense feeling" , "Arousing much feeling" , "Causing strong feelings" , "exciting" .)