didn't see this type of solution in this thread yet, so here goes:

my @group1 = ('A','B','C','D','E');
my @group2 = ('F','G','H','I','J');

my @group1 = sort keys %{{map {$_ => 1} @group1, @group2}};
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Note that the sort is optional, but otherwise the order will be random.