Sentence:  While the particular limits of these groupings may seem artificially arbitrary ; they do fairly <WSD>express</WSD> a corresponding grouping of more variable material , and they eventuate also in five classes , along a similar scale , containing approximately equal numbers of cases , namely 19 , 14 , 15 , 11 , 12 in Athabascan . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  serve as a means for expressing something