The two answer words to this flat, X and Y, each have two syllables.The first syllable of each word has the same three letters - one with a long A and the other with a short A. The second syllables of the words are spelled differently, but sound the same phonetically.

"It's all Greek to me!" the philosophy student cried.

"I couldn't read any more X if I tried."

My sense of his writings has maxed out 

   and Yed."

Answers:

 

PLATO

PLATEAUed

 

Credit:

The Enigma

March, 2023

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