InDesign GREP: replace final letter of words from a defined list

Question

I'm trying to write a broad find/change command for InDesign which looks for words from a defined list (the list is long, around 500 words) and replaces the final character with something else.

Let's say I want words some words ending "-e" to instead end "-i" (so "table" becomes "tabli").

This would be easy to do if I wanted this change to happen on every word ending -e:

find: e\>

change: i

but what if I only want this change to happen on a particular list of words, like only nouns? The method above would change:

I see a table

to:

I sei a tabli

when what we want would be:

I see a tabli

Short of writing 500 different find/change expressions for each word, is there a way to apply this to only words from a pre-defined list?