distress vs inconvenience

distress and inconvenience both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
distress	Yes	No	Yes	No
inconvenience	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, inconvenience is a hypernym of distress; that is, inconvenience is a word with a broader meaning than distress:

distress: bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
inconvenience: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Other hypernyms of distress include bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, put out, trouble.

distress (noun)	inconvenience (noun)
the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim	the quality of not being useful or convenient
psychological suffering	a difficulty that causes anxiety
extreme physical pain	an inconvenient discomfort
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

distress (verb)	inconvenience (verb)
cause mental pain to	to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship