Sentence:  No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been , for example , they could never have created anything <WSD>approaching</WSD> the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma , located between Texas and Oklahoma , which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character