Sentence:  Most of them have been <WSD>assimilated</WSD> , but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese , and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely , her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  become similar to one's environment