Sentence:  Most of them have been assimilated , but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures <WSD>is</WSD> 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:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)