Insist is valid Scrabble Word

Is insist a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is insist valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for INSIST in dictionary:

VERB:

to maintain very firmly
demand something forcefully, not accepting refusal
demand forcefully to have (something)
persist in (doing something)
state positively and assertively
demand or state firmly
To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.
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; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money.
be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
beg persistently and urgently

assert to be true

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to be resolute on some matter

Words related to INSIST

insisted9 insister8 insisters9 insisting10 insistingly15 insists7

Words that contain INSIST

insists7 insisted9 insister8 insistent9 insisters9 insisting10 insistence12 insistency15 insistences13 insistently14 insistingly15 insistencies14 overinsistent16

How to use INSIST in a sentence

It would not be non-co-operation to insist on visiting prohibited areas.
The bread is everywhere excellent, but they rarely enjoy it themselves, as they insist upon eating horrible half-baked hot rolls both morning and evening.
I have before requested, and I must now insist, that you make no allusion to any political matter whatever, nor even mention the name of any political person.
Until the other sects follow her example, I hope our girls will insist on having their conjugal knots all tied by Methodist bishops.
Yet others are unwilling that even the courts should take it up, and insist that the Constitution is clear and explicit already.
Things were able to insist upon themselves with him.
But as in our opinion the result to be achieved is of more importance than the method by which it shall be achieved, we would not insist upon the method of our choice.
She knew that she ought to insist, but she knew too that it would be lovely lighting the fire for Richard.
She is just as resolute as ever to insist on your telling her of the circumstances under which Frank is missing.
Let him insist on respecting the condition where he lives.

For such people there is no help but to insist on self-control and on daily use of the limbs.
Natives of Japan, however, insist that it is Chinese.
For one could insist emphatically without falsehood that this disease, whether by chance or by some providence, chose out with exactitude the worst men and let them go free.
I must also insist on knowing the name of the girl who overheard our talk.
There can be no doubt that this state of things is vastly better than that was, yet, as one has endeavoured to insist, this also has its risks.
The Prairie people notice the difference, and the Hill people, unwisely, I think, insist on it.
It was a fact not understood at home and not recognized abroad, but Washington proposed to insist upon it so far as in him lay, until it was both understood and admitted.
He refused to part with it, and earnestly entreated the King would not insist upon seeing it.
He might have been led to guess her motive or insist on being her escort.
The Texans are the boys to insist on range customs being respected.
Upon this condition they have a right to insist as a part of the compact to which they gave their assent.
We insist, however, upon treating this matter tail foremost.
We must insist on the further demand that the advertisement make a vivid impression, so that it may influence the memory through its vividness.
Late in life, a friend asked whether he thought it was important thus to insist on retaining his rank.
She was always from across the water, from the old country, as villagers to this day insist upon calling Europe.
It was as much as he could do to insist upon their first going in search of their commander.
Tracy had gone to the cottage to complain and insist that Harold should be punished.

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