mendicant vs cadger

mendicant and cadger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mendicant	Yes	Yes	No	No
cadger	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of mendicant include beggarman, beggarwoman, mooch, moocher, scrounger, panhandler, sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi.

mendicant (noun)	cadger (noun)
a pauper who lives by begging	someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

mendicant (adjective)	cadger (adjective)
practicing beggary