defalcation vs sum

defalcation and sum both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defalcation	Yes	No	No	No
sum	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, sum is a hypernym of defalcation; that is, sum is a word with a broader meaning than defalcation:

Other hypernyms of defalcation include amount, amount of money, sum of money.

defalcation (noun)	sum (noun)
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else	the whole amount
the sum of money that is misappropriated	the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
	a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
	the final aggregate
	a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
	a quantity of money

defalcation (verb)	sum (verb)
	determine the sum of
	be a summary of