GAFA Engineer's English Vocabulary List: Page 11

 quorum

• Without a quorum present, the club's members could only hold informal discussions and brainstorming sessions during the meeting.
• We need to wait a few more minutes for additional members to arrive before we can begin the meeting; we're just one person short of reaching the quorum.

root for

• I'll be rooting for our team in the championship game tonight.
• She's been working so hard, and I'm really rooting for her to get that promotion.

PTAL

• PTAL at the new design mockups and let us know if any changes are needed.
• The document has been proofread, but it would be great if you could PTAL one last time.

learn the ropes

• It took me a few weeks to learn the ropes of my new job, but now I feel much more confident.
• After a few months of training, the new recruits finally learned the ropes of emergency response procedures.

prolly

• I'll prolly be at the party later tonight.
• Haven't decided on my plans for the weekend yet, but prolly just relaxing.

pedantic

• His pedantic explanations during the lecture made the subject seem more complex than it actually was.
• The forum discussion devolved into a pedantic argument over a single word choice, overshadowing the main topic of the debate.

keep the lights on

• The nonprofit organization relies on donations to keep the lights on and continue their important work in the community.
• The nonprofit organization relies on donations to keep the lights on and continue their important work in the community.

rabbit hole

• Be careful when researching online; it's easy to fall down a rabbit hole and spend hours on a single topic.
• I went down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories after watching a documentary on historical mysteries.

protected status

• Employees are encouraged to report any instances of harassment or discrimination based on their protected status to the HR department.
• The court ruled that the company's termination of the employee violated her protected status and awarded her damages.

water under the bridge

• The mistakes we made early on in the project are now water under the bridge, and we've learned from them.
• He apologized for his behavior, and I've decided to accept it as water under the bridge.