[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.:He insists on checking every shipment.", "to lay emphasis in assertion:to insist on the justice of a claim.", "to dwell with earnestness or emphasis (usually followed byonorupon):to insist on a point in a discussion."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to assert or maintain firmly:He insists that he saw the ghosts.", "to demand or persist in demanding:I insist that you see this thing through.Synonyms: require , urge"]}]