All terms in this list:

concede: - To give in, admit, yield, surrender; to grant; as, to concede the fact that you lost a competition
To grant, as a right or privilege

conservative: -adjective: Tending to resist change/safe/traditional/old fashioned
-noun: A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
A political or financial conservative

contrary: -adjective: opposed in nature/
strongly dissimilar/different/opposite
-noun: The opposite/ One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true.

denounce: verb: To make negative feelings or opinions known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare./ To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or conde

deter: verb: To prevent something from happening.
To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.

disclose: verb: To open up, reveal/make known/
To uncover, physically expose to view

scapegoat: noun:Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
verb:: The act of punishing someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up

superficial: adjective: Shallow, lacking depth or substance. At face value/lack
noun: A surface detail

transition: noun: the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another
a word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another
verb: To actively make a transition

sustain: To keep going/To maintain (something), or keep it in existence