Tim Gunn's Fantastical Verbal Dictionary

With the fourth season of Project Runway just having ended, there was a run of past episodes including the reunion shows. Of course my favorite montages always feature Tim Gunn. The reuinion show for season three had a special tribute to Tim Gunn's verbal skills. There are a few that I couldn't even spell!
I bet he scored perfect on the SAT verbal portion. Here are just a few of his top $10 words...

• mitigate: to make less severe
• faux bois: fake wood
• consternation: horror that confounds the faculties, dismay
• sturm und drang: storm and stress
• caucus: meeting of persons belonging to a party
• ambivalent-uncertainty or fluctuation
• misapprehension-misunderstand
• egregious-extraordinary in some bad way
• placate-to appease or pacify
• anemic-lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness

Check out more at http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway//index.php.