import unicodedata


def remove_non_ascii(words):
    """Remove non-ASCII characters from list of tokenized words"""
    # replaces non-ascii tokens with ""
    # example £ §
    new_words = []
    for word in words:
        new_word = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', word).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
        new_words.append(new_word)
    return new_words