Recent, humor, profile, linen, smoky, legal, comet, shiver, minus, loser, punish, cavern, local, decent, vacant, and panic follows the v/vc pattern or the vc/v pattern.

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If "v/vc" means there are two vowels followed by a consonant, I don't see any such words in this list.

If "vc/v" means there is a consonant between two vowels, then all of these words fit that pattern.
recent
Smoky