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insistence

Main Entry:
insistence [in-sis-tuhns]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demand
Synonyms: emphasis, importunity, perseverance, persistence, urging
Main Entry: demand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: question, request
Synonyms: appeal, application, arrogation, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, counterclaim, entreatment, entreaty, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, solicitation, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want
Antonyms: grant, offer, reply
Main Entry: emphasis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: importance, prominence
Synonyms: accent, accentuation, attention, decidedness, force, headline, highlight, impressiveness, insistence, intensity, moment, positiveness, power, preeminence, priority, significance, strength, stress, underlining, underscoring, weight
Antonyms: insignificance, unimportance
Main Entry: enforcement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: requirement to obey; implementation of rule(s)
Synonyms: administration, application, carrying out, coercion, compulsion, compulsory law, constraint, duress, enforcing, exaction, execution, fulfilling, imposition, impulsion, insistence, lash, martial law, necessitation, obligation, prescription, pressure, prosecution, reinforcement, spur, whip
Antonyms: abandon, disregard, forgetfulness, neglect, renunciation, slight
Main Entry: incentive
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lure, inducement
Synonyms: allurement, bait, carrot, catalyst, come-on, consideration, determinant, drive, encouragement, enticement, excuse, exhortation, goad, ground, impetus, impulse, incitement, influence, insistence, inspiration, instigation, motivation, motive, persuasion, provocation, purpose, rationale, reason, reason why, spring, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus, temptation, urge, whip
Notes: the temporal orientation of incentive is toward the future; that of inducement is toward the past
Antonyms: block, hindrance, turn-off
Main Entry: will
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: last wishes; command
Synonyms: bequest, bestowal, declaration, decree, device, directions, dispensation, disposition, estate, heritage, inheritance, insistence, instructions, legacy, order, property, testament
Main Entry: urgency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: importance
Synonyms: criticality, desperation, exigency, imminence, importunity, incitement, insistence, instancy, necessity, need, pressure, seriousness, stress
Main Entry: urgency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imperativeness
Synonyms: exigency, importance, importunateness, insistence, need, pressing, seriousness
Main Entry: urging
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: persuading
Synonyms: begging, beseeching, coaxing, driving, goad, imploring, insistence, persuasion, pleading
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