secularist vs advocate

secularist and advocate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
secularist	Yes	No	No	No
advocate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, advocate is a hypernym of secularist; that is, advocate is a word with a broader meaning than secularist:

secularist: an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education
advocate: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

Other hypernyms of secularist include advocator, exponent, proponent.

secularist (noun)	advocate (noun)
an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education	a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
	a lawyer who pleads cases in court

secularist (verb)	advocate (verb)
	push for something
	speak, plead, or argue in favor of