This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

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verb-intransitive. To be firm in a demand or course; refuse to yield: insisted on giving me a second helping.

v. To assert or demand (something) vehemently and persistently: We insist that you accept these gifts.

v. To hold up a claim emphatically.

v. To demand continually that something happen or be done.

v. To stand on; to rest upon; to lean upon. Used especially as a technical term in geometry.

verb-intransitive. To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

verb-intransitive. To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that

To stand or rest; find support: with on or upon.

To rest, dwell, or dilate earnestly or repeatedly; urge: with on or upon: as, I must insist upon your coming.

To assert or argue emphatically; express a desire or a belief with urgency or persistence.

To be urgent in action; proceed persistently; persevere.

v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

v. beg persistently and urgently

v. assert to be true

"Through it all he would insist — insist is a verb I find I must work hard in this context — that all he needed was to be left alone."

insisted    insistently    insisting    insists   

postulate    posit   

stand fast    hold firm    asseverate    stand pat    stand firm    maintain    assert   

insisted    insisting   

persist    stat   

Liszt    assist    cist    coexist    consist    cyst    delist    desist    dismissed    enlist   

handshaking    /usr2/local/httpd/htdocs/lapok/24ora/apps/cikk/cikk.php    upbraiding    geir    coldnesse    self-repression    rushlight    intension    assertor    perswasion