divarication vs forking

divarication and forking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
divarication	Yes	No	No	No
forking	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, forking is a hypernym of divarication; that is, forking is a word with a broader meaning than divarication:

Other hypernyms of divarication include branching, fork, ramification.

divarication (noun)	forking (noun)
branching at a wide angle	the act of branching out or dividing into branches
	the place where something divides into branches