Sentence:  Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me <WSD>closer</WSD> to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp , the packing away of my camp uniforms , the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other