Puzzle of the Week #3

Odd

Fuck the police
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This puzzle is called a Sifter, use the provided list of words and figure out the trick to sift it down to a singular word which will be the answer

Here's the list:
Miscue
Erect
Scooter
Teetotal
Wino
UFO
Iran
Choppy
Banana
Excess
Dundee
Ethnics
Genie
Jaywalking
Decay
Noel
Boozy
Exterminated
Sealegs
Navy
Begone
Entrapped
Empathetic

Sift through the list to get to a single word, 3 letters long
 

jane

queen of the losers.
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Pronouns
She/Her
i tried for half an hour. somebody else figure it out
 
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jane

queen of the losers.
V.I.P. Member
Pronouns
She/Her
we need a cryptologist up in here!!!
 

Odd

Fuck the police
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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Use the words to remove letters from the alphabet

Miscue - Miss the Q
Erect - E gets wrecked
Scooter - Scoot the R

continue until you are left with H,O and W. Put into alphabetical order the final answer is ‘how’