Roused 目を覚まさせる

He could have roused people.

fervid 熱烈に

self-enforced 自分自身に課すもの

transgressed 罪を犯す　道徳上の misbehaved

Thomas’s husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, arguably transgressed the judicial code of conduct by not recusing himself from ruling on any January 6 litigation that could have exposed his wife’s embarrassing texts to view. 

That was the terse comment from Virginia “Ginni” Thomas’s attorney about her recently revealed text messages. 

terse そっけない　brief