Bronchiectasis. Bronchiectasis is a chronic condition where the walls of the bronchi are thickened from inflammation and infection. People with bronchiectasis have periodic flare-ups of breathing difficulties, called exacerbations.
To exceed is to go beyond expectations, or to go too far. If you exceed the speed limit, you might get a speeding ticket. Exceed and excess share the Latin root excedere meaning to go beyond.. An excess is too much of something, like the piles of candy after Halloween, and exceed means the action of going too far in a good or bad way.
Great Expectations is a classic bildungsroman, which traces the story of an orphan boy and his journey from rags to riches and to his eventual self realisation. Jackie French has successfully combined a saga of survival with a centuries old coming of age bildungsroman.