seed, cede

Seed or seed means the small kernel a plant uses to reproduce itself, and which people use to grow plants--
Make sure to put one seed in each hole. Then cover them with dirt.
Each seed will grow into a plant.
Corn kernels are also corn seeds. If you plant one it may grow a cornstalk.

Cede or cede ( rhymes with seed ) means to give over or surrender as a  term of a treaty or pact--
One of the terms of the treaty stipulates that they will cede all of the land they occupied during the war.
He will not agree to cede any territory.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The soldier offered them bushels of grain seed, instead of the wagons they wanted him to cede."

Note--to "concede" is to finally agree with someone, or to admit that someone else is right--
Enough arguing! I concede the point!
He refused to concede that fiction is not the same as fact.