insist vs request

insist

verb
  • To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it. 

  • To hold up a claim emphatically. 

request

verb
  • To ask for (something). 

  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

noun
  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

How often have the words insist and request occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )