diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb50116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/src/WordCloud.java b/src/WordCloud.java
index fab3e35..3850ac8 100644
--- a/src/WordCloud.java
+++ b/src/WordCloud.java
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ private WordCloud topWords (int numWordsToKeep, int groupSize) {
         myTagWords = myTagWords.stream()
                                // sort from most frequent to least
                                // TODO: add secondary comparison alphabetically based on word
-                               .sorted(Comparator.comparing(Entry<String, Long>::getValue).reversed())
+                               .sorted(Comparator.comparing(Entry<String, Long>::getValue).reversed().thenComparing(Comparator.comparing(Entry<String, Long>::getKey)))
                                // keep only the top ones
                                .limit(numWordsToKeep)
                                // convert frequencies into groups (Entry is immutable, so create a new one)
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ private static List<String> readWords (Scanner input,
                                            Predicate<String> select) {
         List<String> contents = Arrays.stream(input.useDelimiter(END_OF_FILE).next().split(WHITESPACE))
                                       // TODO: add map and filter calls using parameters
+        							  .filter(select)
+        							  .map(xform)
                                       .collect(Collectors.toList());
         input.close();
         return contents;