Game sometimes crashes when starting

[powellcj12]

There's an inconsistent, rare crash when starting the game that results in the following stack trace:

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 121806, Size: 121806
    at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:547)
    at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:322)
    at HangmanLexicon.getWord(HangmanLexicon.java:34)
    at Hangman.pickWord(Hangman.java:66)
    at Hangman.<init>(Hangman.java:41)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:357)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:310)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:806)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:713)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:369)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:695)