publicise vs disperse

publicise and disperse both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
publicise	No	No	Yes	No
disperse	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, disperse is a hyponym of publicise; that is, disperse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than publicise:

publicise (verb)	disperse (verb)
make public	cause to separate
call attention to	cause to become widely known
	distribute loosely
	separate (light) into spectral rays
	move away from each other
	to cause to separate and go in different directions