Meaning: The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words. Classified under: Nouns denoting natural processes. Hypernyms (fusion is a kind of...): linguistic process (a process involved in human language) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of fusion): syncretism (the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections))
Description of Circumstantial Ad Hominem. A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest.
Terms for AP English Language & Composition. 1. ad hominem argument: Latin meaning âto or against the man.â An argument that appeals to. emotion rather than reason; to feeling rather than intellect. 2. allusion: A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known,