I'm trying to do some twitter word analysis in processing, which involves comparing tweets against hundreds of words. I have all the tweets loaded into an arraylist, and am currently using .contains to search for particular words in the tweets. 

Only the way I have it right now, I'm creating a new if statement for each word which is obviously very impractical. I'm trying to use contains to search an different array, but it's not really working. Processing isn't finding a bug, it just doesn't react at all. 

Here's my code (I cut out the unrelated stuff, so don't worry about the missing setup, etc.) Thanks!:

2. ArrayList<String> words = new ArrayList();
3. String[] badwordsL = { "I", "am", "a", "test" };
5. void draw(){
8.   if (words.contains(badwordsL)) {
9.     println("By george, I've got it!");
10.   }
11. }