rigmarole vs procedure

rigmarole and procedure both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rigmarole	Yes	No	No	No
procedure	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, procedure is a hypernym of rigmarole; that is, procedure is a word with a broader meaning than rigmarole:

Other hypernyms of rigmarole include process.

rigmarole (noun)	procedure (noun)
a long and complicated and confusing procedure	a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
a set of confused and meaningless statements	a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
	a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
	a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program