adoptee vs actor

adoptee and actor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
adoptee	Yes	No	No	No
actor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, actor is a hypernym of adoptee; that is, actor is a word with a broader meaning than adoptee:

Other hypernyms of adoptee include doer, worker.

adoptee (noun)	actor (noun)
someone (such as a child) who has been adopted	a theatrical performer
	a person who acts and gets things done