hodgepodge vs assortment

hodgepodge and assortment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hodgepodge	Yes	No	No	No
assortment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assortment is a hypernym of hodgepodge; that is, assortment is a word with a broader meaning than hodgepodge:

Other hypernyms of hodgepodge include miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.

hodgepodge (noun)	assortment (noun)
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas	the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
a motley assortment of things	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things