How Do You Spell Quaquaversal?

This puzzles was originally posted on the NY Times games forum

The National Spelling Bee is underway. Below are words corresponding to words misspelled in Round 1. Either the incorrect spelling or correct spelling appears below. Can you identify which are correct, and which are misspelled, and what the correct spelling should be?

1. Irrascible (marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger)
2. Homologate (to approve or confirm officially)
3. Trypanosomiasis (disease caused by parasitic flagellate protozoans)
4. Jarabe (typical Mexican Folk dance)
5. Approbrious (reproachful and contemptuous)
6. Jimcana (meet featuring sports contests or athletic skills)
7. Peroration (a highly rhetorical speech)
8. Ichneumon (an African mongoose)
9. Ascindaton (omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses)
10. Solfutara (a type of fumarole)

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