Sentence:  Hastening to the attic , the <WSD>temperature</WSD> 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:  the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)