scholarship vs assistance

scholarship and assistance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholarship	Yes	No	No	No
assistance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assistance is a hypernym of scholarship; that is, assistance is a word with a broader meaning than scholarship:

scholarship: financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit
assistance: gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

Other hypernyms of scholarship include aid, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance, award, prize.

scholarship (noun)	assistance (noun)
profound scholarly knowledge	the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit	a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
	gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause