Kindred
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Distant and close relatives, collectively Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of the same nature.
Example sentence: The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
Similar
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.of triangles, etc., having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional (the same shape, but possibly different size).
Example sentence: If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.