Puzzle ZHEF 

By changing the third letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?

You have to change each word such that the third letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.

Therefore, what now reads 'krzsaprokd' will be a real word.
bake cure maze pest neat rope port food poke soda

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