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The words and phrases in the following connect wall are missing their vowels. Insert the missing vowels into each word or phrase (all of the words/phrases are spaced correctly), then sort them into four groups of four each. Finally, use the group categories to find a thematic one word answer.

JS N     MGNT     WK       RGN
MTR      ZR       RD       DY
FSTD     SCL      BRGR     PPLT
FNNC     PRST     JD       CTR

Hint 1: (updated)

JS N is a two word phrase that is a portion of a legal term.

Hint 2:

If JS N is giving you trouble, you can replace it with D.

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    $\begingroup$ Nice challenge. Here's a bit of context for anyone who's wondering what this is all about/ $\endgroup$ – squeamish ossifrage Oct 6 '19 at 19:35
  • $\begingroup$ @squeamishossifrage Glad that someone got the reference :D $\endgroup$ – HTM Oct 6 '19 at 19:38
  • $\begingroup$ Am I correct to assume Y is not considered a vowel (Because of DY)? $\endgroup$ – Zimonze Oct 6 '19 at 20:28
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    $\begingroup$ @Zimonze Yes, Y is not a vowel, the only missing letters are AEIOU $\endgroup$ – HTM Oct 6 '19 at 20:29
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    $\begingroup$ Is the space between "JS N" significant? Because on the wikipedia page, "VR NNGDLT TL" was solved as "Vernon God Little". $\endgroup$ – JS1 Oct 6 '19 at 23:29
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To answer in the style of the question... TH SXTN WRDS/PHRSS N TH CNNCT WLL CLD B CTGRSD LK THS:

Group 1: HAM
HamBuRGeR (food)
Ham-FiSTeD (clumsy)
Ham aCToR (overacting performer)
Ham RaDio (amateur broadcasting)

Group 2: HEY
Hey JuDe (Beatles song)
Hey PReSTo (magician's cry)
HeyaWaKe (puzzle type)
HeyDaY (one's prime)

Group 3: RE
JuS iN re (legal term, a right in property ownership)
RePoPuLaTe (fill again with people)
ReFiNaNCe (take out another loan)
Re:ZeRo (Japanese short novel series) (solved by @JS1)

Group 4: The suffix -ITE
SoCiaLite (posh party-goer)
MeTeoRite (space rock)
MaGNeTite (iron ore)
ReaGaNite (supporter of Ronald Reagan)

(Okay, I'll write normally!) As for the 'thematic' final connection:

This is not your typical connecting group using the link-words as they are! Instead, in keeping with the puzzle's theme, let's now remove the vowels from the link-words! This gives us the following:

HAM --> HM,
HEY --> HY,
RE --> R, and
ITE --> T

Re-order these and put them together to find that the 'thematic one-word answer' is:

RHYTHM - one of the longest words in English that can be made without any of the 5 vowels A, E, I, O or U!

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    $\begingroup$ The two groups you got are correct! As for the final answer, wait until you get all the groups ;) $\endgroup$ – HTM Oct 7 '19 at 14:51
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for the confirmation @PilsNot3 - had a feeling I was onto something there; good to know for sure! And yes, time will tell, I guess...! $\endgroup$ – Stiv Oct 7 '19 at 14:53
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    $\begingroup$ May I suggest this: rot13(Er:Mreb), which is this, making the final 4 be this: rot13(zbgbevmr, zntargvmr, fbpvnyvmr, betnavmr), possibly giving rot13(Mrnynaq). $\endgroup$ – JS1 Oct 8 '19 at 6:50
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    $\begingroup$ @PilsNot3 OH! I've just seen what the final thematic word is! Now to work out how to get the one letter I'm missing from the rest... $\endgroup$ – Stiv Oct 8 '19 at 15:16
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    $\begingroup$ @PilsNot3 Done! A nice solution - good puzzle! Got to be honest, I do love the solution method I came up with in Edit 6 as well - obviously the final word I settled on there definitely isn't as fitting as yours, but still: was a lot of fun to solve, thanks :) $\endgroup$ – Stiv Oct 8 '19 at 15:27
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Partial - perhaps I am not very correct here, and I don't have any idea about the first box, but here it goes:

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    $\begingroup$ +1 for the effort, but unfortunately not on the right track with the groups. You did get some of the words right, though, so keep trying. And remember that at the end you should be able to get a word that relates to the theme of the puzzle! $\endgroup$ – HTM Oct 6 '19 at 23:20
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    $\begingroup$ Parasite....might be an organism rather than an orgasm....... $\endgroup$ – El-Guest Oct 7 '19 at 3:23
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    $\begingroup$ Yeah.. my mistake :P But it's a screenshot, and I don't have the original text anymore, so unable to edit it :( $\endgroup$ – SamRoy Oct 7 '19 at 8:39
  • $\begingroup$ Could the first one be "JSON"? The space could also indicate that it's actually two words. $\endgroup$ – Hugo Zink Oct 7 '19 at 12:47
  • $\begingroup$ @HugoZink Like I mentioned in the comments and the post, the phrase is spaced correctly. Looks like a lot of people are getting confused over it, so I’ll probably post a hint in a bit $\endgroup$ – HTM Oct 7 '19 at 14:53
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Just a partial answer with some potential solutions for the words (plus a couple added from comments below); too much to put in a comment, but not enough to be a complete wall. It feels like clue 1 is going to answer a lot of questions when we can figure it out.

First row (1 - 4)

1. [Jose / Joose / Jas], [One / Neo / Eon / Una / Uno / Oona / Neue], ?
2. Magenta / Magnet / Magneto / Magento
3. Week / Wake / Wok / Awoke / Woke / Wookie / Wiki / Wikia / Ewok / Weak
4. Argon / Regain / Oregon / Eragon / Region / Aragon / Oregano / Organ / Origin / Reign / Raygun / Regina / Uruguayan

Second row (5 - 8)

5. Meter (verb, distance, monitor) / Motor / Amateur / Mitre (bishop, joint, brand) / Mature
6. Zero / Azure / Azore / Ezra / Azera
7. Red / Redo / Erode / Rude / Radii / Ride / Road
8. Day / Dye / DIY

Third row (9 - 12)

9. Fasted / Feasted / OFSTED / Fisted
10. Scale / Scala / Social
11. Burger
12. Populate / Applet

Fourth row (13 - 16)

13. Fennec / Finance
14. Priest / Parasite / Prost / Poorest / Preset / Pursuit / Purest
15. Jade / Jed / Judo / Jedi
16. Actor / Cater

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    $\begingroup$ I got (4) reign, (7) road, (12) applet. $\endgroup$ – JMP Oct 7 '19 at 10:12
  • $\begingroup$ rot13(wbfhr bar, cevrfg, rmen, whqr) would refer to rot13(gur ovoyr) $\endgroup$ – Laurent LA RIZZA Oct 7 '19 at 10:31
  • $\begingroup$ @LaurentLARIZZA why does rot13(cevrfg) fit that group, and why would rot13(wbfhr bar) be in Spanish when the others are in English? $\endgroup$ – Joe Oct 7 '19 at 11:00
  • $\begingroup$ @Joe: rot13(wbfhr bar) would match french also. Note that I just discovered the show, it does not air down here. And I forgot that this guy is spelt differently in english. $\endgroup$ – Laurent LA RIZZA Oct 7 '19 at 12:15

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