In game of chess, you can only win.. If you recognize your own missteps.

If you have one more misstep on this job, you'll be fired!

The root or base word of "misstep" is "step."

I broke my ankle when I took a sudden misstep.

The holidays are a great time to practice overlooking any slight or misstep that your relatives might happen to make.

I think that it is simply diabolical of our English teacher to include the word 'misstep' in our lessons, seemingly in the hopes that we will misspell it.

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