/ Quizzes / Tim Gunn's Vocabulary Quiz Tim Gunn's Vocabulary Quiz by Mark HughesTim Gunn, Project Runway mentor extraordinaire, is a man whose big vocabulary just exudes from him. The word exudes means to "ooze out." Take this quiz to see if you and Tim speak the same language. A quote from Gunn begins each question.Choose the correct meaning of the word(s) in bold. Question 1 (out of 10): "You might try mitigating that center seam."Mitigating means: to make less severe to make more severe to scrap altogether to leave it as it is