Concede
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of. To admit to be true; to acknowledge. To yield or make concession. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
Example sentence: In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.
Confess
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committedTo disclose or reveal
Example sentence: I must confess, I was born at a very early age.