Sentence:  The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established , in point of fact , that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved , it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they <WSD>are</WSD> and how they relate to the rest of the world . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  be identical to; be someone or something