insist (v.)

• advocate
• affirm
• allege
• announce
• annunciate
• argue
• assert
• asseverate
• aver
• avouch
• avow
• blandish
• cajole
• coax
• command
• contend
• declare
• demand
• emphasize
• enunciate
• exhort
• expostulate
• express
• have
• hold
• importune
• jawbone
• lobby
• maintain
• nag
• persist
• ply
• predicate
• press
• pressure
• proclaim
• profess
• pronounce
• protest
• push
• put
• recommend
• remonstrate
• require
• say
• soft-soap
• speak
• state
• stress
• submit
• sweet-talk
• urge
• vow
• wheedle