import string


def remove_punctuation(words):
    """
    remove the punctuation from words
    """
    if isinstance(words, str):
        words = [words]

    # translation table to map punctuations to None
    punctuation_table = str.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(string.punctuation))

    return [
        word.translate(punctuation_table)
        for word in words
    ]