forking vs divarication

forking and divarication both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of forking include bifurcation, trifurcation, fibrillation.

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