concede
kun-SEEDverbMeaning to admit that something is true, often unwillingly
Memory hook con-CEDE: YIELD the point. After a long chess game, Grandpa tips over his own king and smiles: “You win.” He concedes.
After the long chess game, Grandpa conceded that Kai had won.
In context Though she still disliked the plan, the team captain conceded that it would save time, and she agreed to try it for a week.
Similar admit, acknowledge, grant, allow
Opposite deny, dispute, contest
From Latin concedere, “to give way, yield”: con + cedere (to go, yield).