You really want that reject list as a hash. Consider:
my @do_not_want = qw{ ytd mtd wtd };
my %rejects;
@rejects{@do_not_want} = ();
foreach my $anything_but ( grep {! exists $rejects{$_}} keys %hash ) {
print $anything_but . "\n";
}
which in the context of the rest of your sample prints:
Meat_Pie
Jumbo_Tron
Word
The magic bit is @rejects{@do_not_want} = (); which uses a hash slice (see Slices) to create a hash with an entry for each unique element in @do_not_want.
Update: provided better hash slice link
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