concede vs reject

concede

verb
  • To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge. 

  • To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant 

  • To yield or make concession. 

  • (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling. 

  • To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of. 

  • To have a goal or point scored against 

reject

verb
  • To refuse to accept. 

  • To refuse a romantic advance. 

  • To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. 

noun
  • A rejected takeoff. 

  • A rejected defective product in a production line. 

  • Something that is rejected. 

  • An unpopular person. 

How often have the words concede and reject occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )