kludge vs assemblage

kludge and assemblage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
kludge	Yes	No	No	No
assemblage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assemblage is a hypernym of kludge; that is, assemblage is a word with a broader meaning than kludge:

kludge: a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose
assemblage: several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Other hypernyms of kludge include accumulation, aggregation, collection.

kludge (noun)	assemblage (noun)
a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose	the social act of assembling
	a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
	a group of persons together in one place
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole