Sentence:  A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating class of <WSD>nearly</WSD> one thousand at Yale ; that is , about one-half of one per cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which professes to be `` national '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but