Below are thirteen common 5-letter words, each of which has had two of its letters removed.
In total these 26 letters are A-Z. The remaining letters in each word are in the correct order.
There are no words that are spelled differently based on location (favour / favor, etc) and there are no plurals.
Can you determine the original words?
-AI-E
S-UA-
-E-EL
-O-ED
-NA-E
FOG--
C--MP
B--JO
-R-IT
-RE-T
-AV-N
MU--C
MOU--
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