commissar vs functionary

commissar and functionary both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commissar	Yes	No	No	No
functionary	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, functionary is a hypernym of commissar; that is, functionary is a word with a broader meaning than commissar:

commissar: an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit
functionary: a worker who holds or is invested with an office

Other hypernyms of commissar include official.

commissar (noun)	functionary (noun)
an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit	a worker who holds or is invested with an office