striving vs jihad

striving and jihad both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
striving	Yes	No	No	No
jihad	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, jihad is a hyponym of striving; that is, jihad is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than striving:

striving: an effortful attempt to attain a goal
jihad: a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal

Other hyponyms of striving include jehad.

striving (noun)	jihad (noun)
an effortful attempt to attain a goal	a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal