salt vs flavour

salt and flavour both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
salt	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
flavour	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, flavour is a hypernym of salt; that is, flavour is a word with a broader meaning than salt:

Other hypernyms of salt include flavor, season.

salt (noun)	flavour (noun)
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth	the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food	(physics) the six kinds of quarks
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)	the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

salt (adjective)	flavour (adjective)
(of speech) painful or bitter