JV vs squad

JV and squad both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
JV	Yes	No	No	No
squad	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, squad is a hypernym of JV; that is, squad is a word with a broader meaning than JV:

JV: a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team
squad: a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

Other hypernyms of JV include team.

JV (noun)	squad (noun)
a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team	a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
	a smallest army unit
	a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime