assortment vs sampler

assortment and sampler both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assortment	Yes	No	No	No
sampler	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sampler is a hyponym of assortment; that is, sampler is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than assortment:

assortment (noun)	sampler (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things	an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something
	an assortment of various samples
	someone who samples food or drink for its quality