guise vs semblance

guise and semblance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
guise	Yes	No	No	No
semblance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, semblance is a hypernym of guise; that is, semblance is a word with a broader meaning than guise:

guise: an artful or simulated semblance
semblance: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

Other hypernyms of guise include color, colour, gloss.

guise (noun)	semblance (noun)
an artful or simulated semblance	picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
	an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
	an erroneous mental representation