| VERB | communication | insist, take a firm stand | be emphatic or resolute and refuse / refuse to budge |
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| communication | insist, importune | beg persistently and urgently | |
| cognition | insist, assert | assert to be true |
| Sounds | ihnsih'st | |
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| Rhymes | abortionist ... Zionist: 236 rhymes with ihst... | |
| Meaning | Be emphatic or resolute and refuse / refuse to budge. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s on something | |
| Example | "I must insist!" | |
| Synonym | take a firm stand | |
| Narrower | assert, asseverate, maintain | state categorically |
| stand pat, stand firm, hold firm, stand fast | refuse / refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief | |
| Catalan | insistir | |
| Spanish | insistir | |
| Nouns | insistence | continual and persistent demands |
| Meaning | beg persistently and urgently. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | They insist to move | |
| Synonym | importune | |
| Narrower | besiege | harass, as with questions or requests |
| Broader | beg, implore, pray | Call upon in supplication |
| Nouns | insistence | the act of insisting on something |
| insisting | continual and persistent demands | |
| Meaning | assert to be true. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They insist that there was a traffic accident | |
| Synonym | assert | |
| Broader | postulate, posit | Take as a given |