Sentence:  Hastening to the <WSD>attic</WSD> , the temperature of which was easily hotter than the Gold Coast , you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet , some khaki pants , and the like , and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage