Below are thirteen 5 lettered 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?
--UST
-UE-N
O-O-E
--AND
-A-ER
ID-O-
-UC-Y
E-I-T
HEA--
TOU--
-RIE-
-RY-T
H-M-N
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