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insist
 
VERB:1. To solicit (something) insistently: press, urge. See CONTINUE, SEEK. 2. To take and maintain a stand obstinately: persevere, persist. See CONTINUE.
PHRASAL VERB:insist on To ask for urgently or insistently: call for, claim, demand, exact, require, requisition. Idioms: cry out for. See REQUEST.
 
 
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