Sentence:  She paused at the kitchen door , caught her breath , told herself firmly that the <WSD>opium</WSD> was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen , where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy